Regulators Want Reduced Animal Testing – Could AI Be The Answer?

AI modeling can predict which animal tests are useful and necessary, saving money for companies and meeting objectives set by regulators in the US and EU, VeriSIM Life’s CEO and founder Jo Varshney tells the Pink Sheet.

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Drug regulators are increasingly pushing for reduced animal testing, particularly in the EU, where it was recently announced that the use of the traditional rabbit pyrogen test (RPT) will be abolished next year as a requirement for controlling drug product pyrogenicity.

Jo Varshney, founder and CEO of VeriSIM Life, a US company that uses AI to help pharmaceutical companies improve drug...