{"id":740602,"date":"2026-08-17T07:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T07:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/740602\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T07:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T07:38:08","slug":"plans-for-20m-hub-in-cambridge-to-develop-new-medicines-using-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/740602\/","title":{"rendered":"Plans for \u00a320m hub in Cambridge to develop new medicines using AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The hub is also expected to use lab-grown mini-organs called &#8220;organoids&#8221; and other stem cell-based systems and AI approaches, bioengineering and clinical research.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Zilbauer said the initiative could &#8220;ultimately lead to more effective, personalised therapies while reducing the time and cost of drug development&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The hub will be led by Zilbauer and Professor Bertie G\u00f6ttgens, director of the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute and co-leader of the hub.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;By bringing together hospitals, research institutes and industry partners in Cambridge and across the UK, the Hub will accelerate the development and use of new, more accurate research tools that better reflect human biology to improve the development of new therapies,&#8221; said G\u00f6ttgens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Wellcome Sanger Institute, MRC-Laboratory of Molecular Biology (MRC-LMB) and Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust are also partners in the initiative. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Do you have a story suggestion for Cambridgeshire? Contact us below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The hub is also expected to use lab-grown mini-organs called &#8220;organoids&#8221; and other stem cell-based systems and AI&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":740603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-740602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/740603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}