How AI is Accelerating the Search for New Medicines

Why is the process of creating a new and highly beneficial pharmaceutical drug so difficult? What are the hurdles researchers face when trying to identify a new drug? Why are side effects so challenging to predict? Why are pharmaceutical drugs so expensive? In today's episode, we dive deep into drug discovery, and see how AI is already changing the process from the ground up, leading to what can only be described as a revolutionary acceleration in pharmaceutical precision and personalization. Timestamps 0:00 Intro 0:48 The Dream of Medicines 1:53 The Incredible Challenges of Finding New Medicines 8:36 Deepmind and AlphaFold2 14:33 How AI Is Impacting Drug Discovery 22:58 Outro This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit justincottle.substack.com/subscribe