Amirah Al Idrus, Fierce Biotech

Jason Mast, Amber Tong, Endpoints News

Amirah Al Idrus, Fierce Biotech

Computers are sifting through an endless archive of biological data and quickly finding patterns that it would take a human a lifetime to discover.

Deep Genomics Inc. has raised $40 million in venture capital to put treatments discovered through its artificial intelligence-based drug-discovery platform to the test in human studies.

Brendan Frey set out, when he began the project to pick out a lead program for Deep Genomics, to prove that the artificial intelligence systems his lab has designed can identify new drug targets and find a winning candidate much faster than traditional methods.