{"id":559179,"date":"2026-04-02T00:06:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T00:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/559179\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T00:06:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T00:06:18","slug":"insilico-medicine-ceo-on-how-best-to-use-ai-in-drug-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/559179\/","title":{"rendered":"Insilico Medicine CEO on how best to use AI in drug development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019re reading the web edition of STAT\u2019s AI Prognosis newsletter, our subscriber-exclusive guide to artificial intelligence in health care and medicine.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/signup\/ai-prognosis\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to get it<\/a>\u00a0delivered in your inbox every Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They remind you to not talk during the movie, but when I saw \u201cProject Hail Mary\u201d last week, I was so alarmed that Ryan Gosling placed two Eppendorf tubes next to each other that I said, aghast, \u201cHe didn\u2019t balance the centrifuge \u2014 that would have wrecked it\u2026\u201d while my non-scientist friends cracked up.<\/p>\n<p>That one scientific flub aside, it\u2019s still one of the best book-to-film adaptations I\u2019ve seen, maybe ever.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProject Hail Mary\u201d reviews, job offers for a scientific production designer role on the next blockbuster movie, AI tips: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection\" class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"3d5c544d4f525a53524e544e7d4e495c4953584a4e135e5250\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Insilico Medicine\u00a0CEO on the company\u2019s AI philosophy<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve always been a little confused about Insilico Medicine, one of the biggest and longest-running AI drug companies. I\u2019ve never fully understood what it does or its popularity. But earlier this week, the company inked a deal with Eli Lilly for $115 million upfront and $2.75 billion in total potential payments. 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