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Medicinal Chemistry In The Age Of Artificial Intelligence

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In 2001, I was at Millennium Pharmaceuticals, one of the major players in the nascent field of genomics drug discovery, and that time has strong parallels to the changing state of drug development today. In fact, the Millennium of 2001 (pre-Takeda acquisition) had one drug approved which was Velcade (bortezomib).

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Levers for Biological Progress

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I’ve chosen these two because I think they are the linchpin by which we’ll be able to build broadly useful AI models for cell and molecular biology. Synthesizing a single human protein-coding gene costs several hundred dollars and even a simple PCR machine (used for amplifying DNA) costs between $1,500 and $50,000.

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