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Siôn Geschwindt @ The Next Web 1 place · 01/21/2025 10:48 EDT

Europe accelerates AI drug discovery as DeepMind spinoff targets trials this year

Google DeepMind spinoff Isomorphic Labs expects testing on its first AI-designed drugs to begin this year, as tech startups race to turn algorithmic magic into actual treatments. “We’ll hopefully have some AI-designed drugs in clinical trials by the end of the year,” the firm’s Nobel Prize-winning CEO Demis Hassabis told a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week. “That’s the plan.”   The potential of AI-powered drug discovery is huge. Instead of spending years or even decades testing chemicals.

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