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393:, and over 25 biotechnology, AI, and pharmaceutical investors. By mid-2021, it claimed to have nominated eight preclinical candidates. Another $ 60 million in new Series D financing was raised in 2022. As of 2023 it was reported that over $ 400 million had been invested in the company. In 2023, Zhavoronkov stated that he "moved the company's R&D to China to capitalize on 'half a trillion dollars' worth of infrastructure and hundreds of thousands of scientists to enable AI-designed drugs". 92: 45: 314:
to the generation of novel molecular structures with desired properties. In 2016, Insilico published an algorithm that it called the "Insilico Pathway Activation Network Decomposition Analysis" or "iPANDA" algorithm, asserted to allow researchers "to quickly and efficiently analyze signaling and
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to design potential new drugs. One was reported to have shown promising initial results when tested in mice. Research areas for therapeutics have included fibrosis, immunology, oncology and the central nervous system. To demonstrate the capacity of their proprietary
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for research and development programs in the pharmaceutical industry, using AI and deep-learning techniques to analyze how a compound will affect cells and what drugs can be used to treat the cells in addition to possible side effects. Through its
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Kadurin A, Nikolenko S, Khrabrov K, Aliper A, Zhavoronkov A (September 2017). "druGAN: An Advanced Generative Adversarial Autoencoder Model for de Novo Generation of New Molecules with Desired Molecular Properties in Silico".
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to "identify novel drug targets for untreated diseases", and has pursued dual-purpose therapeutics, "going after a specific disease or several diseases while targeting ageing at the same time".
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The company "focused exclusively on drug discovery until 2019 when it began developing its own therapeutics". In January 2021, Insilico entered into a partnership with
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Alex Zhavoronkov, PhD, Feng Ren, PhD, Alex Aliper, PhD, Michelle Chen, PhD, Nirav Jhaveri, MBA, Jimmy Lin, PhD, Quentin Vanhaelen, PhD
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The company has multiple collaborations in the applications of next-generation artificial intelligence technologies such as the
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The company "applies DL, big data, and genomis for in silico drug discovery" for various conditions. It has sought to develop
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services to different pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and skin care companies. Insilico is known for hiring mainly through
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Zhavoronkov A, Cantor CR, "Methods for structuring scientific knowledge from many areas related to aging research",
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and other local competitions. By mid-2017, Insilico had raised $ 8.26 million in funding from investors including
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Putin E, Asadulaev A, Ivanenkov Y, Aladinskiy V, Sanchez-Lengeling B, Aspuru-Guzik A, Zhavoronkov A (June 2018).
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metabolic pathway perturbation states using gene expression data". In conjunction with
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Pun FW, Liu BH, Long X, Leung HW, Leung GH, Mewborne QT, et al. (28 June 2022).
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platforms, the company published two projects on identifying therapeutic targets for
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Pun FW, Leung GH, Leung HW, Liu BH, Long X, Ozerov IV, et al. (March 2022).
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Senolytic: Selectively induce death of senescent cells to improve humans' health
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Zhavoronkov assertedly founded Insilico Medicine in 2014, as an alternative to
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Insilico Medicine’s AI-Driven Platform Pushes The Envelope Of Drug Discovery
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Outside of human drugs, in 2021 the company partnered with Swiss company
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resources in Belgium, Russia, and the UK and hires talent through
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In 2017, Insilico was named one of the Top five AI companies by
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In 2011, Alex Zhavoronkov published an article in the journal
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In 2019, the company in partnership with researchers at the
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For the general use of computer simulation in medicine, see
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architecture for molecular generation which combines GANs,
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The company has collaborated with scientists at the
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