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AI Expert Exscientia Adds BMS To Big Pharma Client List

$50m Upfront, Potential Value Of Pact Is Over $1.2bn

 
• By Kevin Grogan

BMS is impressed with Exscientia's projects with recently acquired Celgene and has signed up to use the UK firm's artificial intelligence platform to accelerate the discovery of small molecules in areas including oncology and immunology.

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Having participated in Exscientia Ltd.'s recent $225m fundraising, Bristol Myers Squibb Company is paying the UK-based artificial intelligence-driven pharmatech company another $50m upfront as part of a drug discovery collaboration.

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