AI Use Case
Identify new therapeutic uses for existing drugs
Identify drug compounds with current regulatory approval which could be used in new ways to treat other conditions. Machine learning assists by searching through existing research literature for known and inferred relationships
Function
R And D
Core Research And Development
Benefits
Revenue - New product,Risk reduction - Patient outcomes
Case Studies
Pfizer~Pfizer identifies new potential cancer treatments using IBM Watson,GlaxoSmithKline~GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) plans to accelerate drug discovery as well as new applications for existing drugs using machine learning,GlaxoSmithKline~GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) plans to reduce drug discovery to trial time from six years to 12 months using machine learning models to predict molecular behaviour
Potential Vendors
IBM Watson,Exscientia
Industry
Healthcare
Pharmaceuticals And Biotech
Data Sets
Text,Structured / Semi-structured
AI Technologies
Traditional AI,Machine Learning (ML),Product Type - Natural Language Processing (NLP),ML Task - Prediction - Data Translation/Transformation,ML Task - Prediction - Regression