NVIDIA’s Kimberly Powell touts progress on AI in drug discovery

SAN FRANCISCO — In the world of drug discovery, AI progress is often measured by a single-mile marker: When will we get an AI-designed drug?

The answer remains, ambiguously, “the future,” but at STAT’s Breakthrough Summit leaders from NVIDIA and Google insisted that the impact of AI is visible today.

Kimberly Powell, vice president of healthcare for NVIDIA, pointed to an increase in investigational new drug applications filed with the Food and Drug Administration that cite AI, as well as an uptick in early-stage readouts from clinical trials, as evidence of progress. Some of the recent readouts, Powell said, show that what’s going into Phase 1 clinical trials is more successful.

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