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AI-Driven CHARM’s Number One Goal: Transitioning To A Clinical-Stage Biotech

 
• By Lucie Ellis-Taitt

Laksh Aithani, CEO of CHARM Therapeutics, discusses key challenges for the flourishing AI drug development sector including finding the right people and the need for more success stories.

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First-time CEO Laksh Aithani co-founded CHARM Therapeutics in 2021. The artificial intelligence-driven biotech is discovering and developing small molecule medicines against difficult-to-drug targets using its 3-D, deep learning-enabled platform.

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