Alex Zhavoronkov, PhD, Contributor

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AI In Big Pharma: The First Antibody Designed Using AI In The Clinic

In recent years, a hand full of AI startup companies that managed to utilize AI/ML to discover novel targets and/or design therapeutics reached human clinical trials and received massive media attention. However, there are several similar transformativ…

This Harvard Female Scientist Wants To Use Genetics To Reverse The Age Of Your Skin

She worked in top labs at Stanford and Harvard. Now she wants to disrupt a 100-Billion-Dollar market by rejuvenating your skin using genetic engineering.

Can We Reverse Our Psychological Age And Get Happier At The Same Time Using Artificial Intelligence?

As the body grows old, our minds are often instigated by mental decline and progressive, natural psychological aging. However, while there are very little we can do about biological aging, there are many ways to reverse psychological aging and get happ…

Celebrity Strategy Consultant Predicts What Will Be The Most Impactful Area In The Pharmaceutical Industry

Aging is one single determinant of most diseases. In recent years, the biotechnology industry started using aging biology as a platform for drug discovery to discover and develop potentially blockbuster therapeutics. Dr. Michael Ringel of BCG presented…

When Will AI Beat The Eroom’s Law In The Pharmaceutical Industry?

The term Eroom’s law in pharma was coined by Dr. Jack Scannell and colleagues in 2012 in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery. It is the opposite of Moore’s law in semiconductors and states that the inflation-adjusted cost of developing a new drug roughly dou…

The New Saudi Arabia – Vision 2030 and AI

While the media focuses on the negative news to grab your attention, the world is rapidly improving. One of the pockets of this positive change is Saudi Arabia which recently committed spending about 2.5% of GDP on R&D and prioritized longevity biotech…

The Advent Of Longevity Technology – From A Movement Into An Industry

Longevity biotechnology it is clearly one of the main industries of the future with thousands of new scientists and industry professionals entering the field every year. Here is an exclusive interview with the founder of Longevity.Technology, leading i…

Can Viagra Extend Your Life?

Did you know that Viagra was originally developed as a cardiovascular drug and was implicated in ED by accident?
Did you know that other pharma companies missed out on ED as they were afraid of negative publicity?
Did you know that Viagra may extend …

A Weekend By Foresight Institute – A Community For Future Technologies

There are many technologies that are rapidly advancing and converging. Longevity biotechnology is not standing still. Here are the highlights from a recent Foresight Institute meeting on the Longevity Tech Trees that transpired in San Francisco in May …

Over 10,000 Diseases And Only 50 Drugs Approved In 2021. To Improve Pharma R&D Efficiency We Need To Understand It.

Measuring the efficiency of research and development (R&D) in the pharmaceutical industry has long been a difficult task. It is even more complex now as many new technologies become available to the pharma companies. Here are some insights into who are…