Can AI Help Us Find the Next Breakthrough Medicine?
Discover how researchers use AI to find new medicines faster. Hear how collaboration and creativity are shaping the future of drug discovery.
In this episode of Cultures of AI, host Samborne Bush explores how artificial intelligence is changing the way new medicines are discovered. Professor Jo Bates from the University of Sheffield explains how researchers use AI to predict how different chemical compounds might work as drugs and why this could speed up the process of finding new treatments. She also shares insights from workshops with scientists tackling challenges around data quality and collaboration.
Later, Dr Raminderpal Singh discusses his work in helping smaller pharmaceutical companies adopt AI through the community platform Hitchhiker’s AI. He explains why embracing computational methods is vital for innovation, and how cultural barriers can slow progress.
Together, they reveal how AI is reshaping the future of drug discovery and why collaboration between people, data, and technology is key.
Credits
- Host: Samborne Bush (Research Associate at the University of Sheffield)
- Guest: Professor Jo Bates (Professor of Data and Society at the University of Sheffield)
