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Benevolent AI applies AI tech in the human health and bioscience sectors


answer other questions and extract new information,” says Ferraiuolo. “AI is already extensively used for image analysis in the medical field, I believe in silico models and drug discovery are our present and immediate future,” she adds. Looking ahead throughout 2018,


Hunter says that the focus of the company’s effort will be on the analysis of


clinical data and genomics ‘to see how the technology can be used to impact clinical trials and patient stratification.’ “AI is going to have a massive role in personalised medicine. Te power of AI to harness the available data in order to understand patient endotypes will help us more readily identify the right medicine for the right patient,” she adds.


Improving productivity Elsewhere, Dundee-based company Exscientia is applying its AI-based drug discovery and design capabilities to dramatically improve productivity in the stage from initial chemical design to clinical candidate, the single most expensive part of drug development per launched drug. As Andrew Hopkins, CEO at


The Exscientia management team: Andrew Hopkins, CEO is second left www.scientistlive.com


Exscientia, explains, the company’s goal is, starting from a project definition, to design and advance novel high-quality compounds with excellent therapeutic properties to clinical entry in one and a half years. It does this by applying AI to ‘dramatically reduce the number of compounds required for analysis from typically 2,500 per project using traditional approaches, to just 500 when using AI-driven techniques.’ “Our approach is to fuse the power of AI with the discovery experience of seasoned drug hunters. As a result, the company believes it is the first to automate drug design in a manner surpassing conventional approaches,” he says.


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