Insilico Medicine will partner with SK Biopharmaceuticals to discover new artificial intelligence (AI)-based drug candidates for disorders affecting the neuroimmune area of the central nervous system (CNS), through a collaboration that could generate up to $2.5 billion for the AI-based drug developer.
Insilico agreed to apply its Pharma.AI platform, which addresses target validation, generative chemistry, and molecule optimization, along with its preclinical drug discovery expertise, to discover, design, and optimize candidates for neuroimmune indications against targets that will originate with SK.
SK will contribute its development and clinical capabilities in neuroimmune disorders, steering the late-stage development and commercialization of all resulting programs.
“Some of the collaborations we do are very focused on target discovery, but here it’s more focused on the delivery of the real drug,” Alex Zhavoronkov, PhD, Insilico’s founder, co-CEO, and chief business officer, told GEN in an interview at his company’s exhibition-hall booth…
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