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AstraZeneca Reaps Fruit From BenevolentAI Deal

Kicks Off With Kidney Disease Candidate

 
• By Alexandra Shimmings

An artificial intelligence and machine learning deal between BenevolentAI and AstraZeneca struck in 2019 has produced its first drug candidate.    

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Away from the drama surrounding supply of its COVID-19 vaccine to the EU, AstraZeneca PLCis reaping the first rewards of a 2019 collaboration in artificial intelligence with computational medicines specialist firm BenevolentAI Limited, with the selection of a novel chronic kidney disease (CKD) target to advance into drug development. This will be the first AI-generated target from the collaboration to enter the company’s research portfolio.

The big pharma firm recruited BenevolentAI as part of an initiative to secure future growth using technologies like machine learning...

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