AstraZeneca And BenevolentAI Advance AI Partnership With Second Novel Target

Focus On Biology Paying Off

AstraZeneca and BenevolentAI claim their partnership is augmenting and accelerating validation of new drug targets.

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AstraZeneca's new Discovery Centre (DISC) In Cambridge, UK. • Source: Alamy

A second novel drug target has been generated in AstraZeneca and BenevolentAI’s artificial intelligence-assisted drug discovery partnership, this time in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF).

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