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Curing the Incurable

AI Drug Discovery

8 companies · 3 sourced backers · 53 milestones on record

// What this frontier is about

AI drug discovery uses machine learning, biological data and molecular modelling to identify and design potential medicines, including therapeutic proteins. Companies are trying to turn computer predictions and automated experiments into a repeatable discovery process that produces safe, effective treatments with demonstrated benefits for patients.

// How real is it?

Where the 8 companies stand today, from their profiles and 10-year milestones. Tap a phase to see who is there.

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// What usually holds it back
  • ▸Turning computational predictions into drug candidates that work in patients.
  • ▸Demonstrating the safety and effectiveness of designed molecules.
  • ▸Making medicine discovery repeatable rather than producing isolated successes.
  • ▸Progressing drug candidates through testing to approval.
// Who's backing it
NVIDIALeaps by BayerARK

Publicly listed: 5 companies (owned by public shareholders).

// Inside the terminal
  • ›Every sourced story on all frontiers, filterable by company and news type
  • ›10-year milestone records for each company: demo vs shipped
  • ›Explained: plain-words readiness diagrams for real breakthroughs
  • ›Signal Trends of 39 frontiers covering 378 companies over time.
  • ›The events calendar: launches, approvals and deadlines ahead
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// Companies in this frontier
  • Generate Biomedicines

    To use generative AI to design useful therapeutic proteins.

    Lab · publicly listed

  • Genesis Therapeutics

    To use deep learning to design molecules that can become medicines.

    Lab

  • Iambic Therapeutics

    To use AI and molecular modelling to design better drug candidates.

    Lab · publicly listed

  • Insitro

    To use machine learning and biological data to discover medicines more systematically.

    Trials

  • Recursion Pharmaceuticals

    To make drug discovery a repeatable, data-driven process using automated biological experiments and AI.

    Trials · publicly listed

  • Relay Therapeutics

    To use understanding of protein motion to design more effective drug candidates.

    Trials · publicly listed

  • Schrodinger

    Full success would mean its physics-based and AI computational platform routinely producing approved drugs and advanced materials, proving that molecules can…

    Some users · publicly listed

  • Xaira Therapeutics

    To use AI as a foundation for discovering and developing medicines.

    Lab

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