Pillar

AI-Powered R&D

How AI tools are speeding up the discovery and development of new medicines.

Why it matters

It takes on average over a decade and billions of dollars to bring a new medicine to market. AI is often framed as the thing that breaks that equation — the more accurate framing is narrower: it compresses specific, well-defined pieces of the pipeline, not the whole of it.

This pillar covers where that compression is real — target identification, molecule design, trial design — and where the hype still outruns what biology and regulation actually allow.