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First AI-Designed Drug Candidate To Reach Human Trials
Artificial intelligence (AI) backed drug discovery company Insilico Medicine announced last week that it was dosing the first healthy volunteer in a microdose trial of ISM 001-005. Designed with the help of AI, the drug is a small-molecule inhibitor of a biological target that was discovered by Pharma.AI. The trial is being conducted in Australia. The AI-designed drug will be used to treat chronic lung disease idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, or IPF. IPF usually leads to progressive and irreversible lung-function decline and affects 20 people out of over 100,000 globally.