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Takeda Partners with Boltz to Advance AI-Driven Drug Discovery

Shots: Boltz has partnered with Takeda to deploy its biomolecular AI platform across Takeda’s research organization, providing discovery teams access to proprietary foundation models, incl. BoltzMol-1 & BoltzProt-1, to accelerate AI-driven drug discovery The platform is designed to support in-silico molecular design, enabling structure prediction, affinity estimation, and generative design to enhance AI-driven drug discovery…

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LabGenius Therapeutics and LG Chem Collaborate to Develop an AI/ML-Designed Tumour-Targeting Antibody

Shots: LabGenius has entered into a multi-year research collaboration, option & licensing agreement with LG Chem to identify next-generation multispecific antibodies for difficult-to-treat cancers, leveraging LabGenius’ AI/ML-driven antibody discovery platform, EVA As per the licensing deal, LabGenius will lead preclinical research, incl. in vitro efficacy studies, after which LG Chem will conduct further preclinical development, incl.…

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Protillion Biosciences and Merck Enter ~$510M Drug Discovery Collaboration

Shots: Protillion has entered into a multi-target discovery collaboration & license agreement with Merck, integrating Protillion’s Prot-MaP technology with Merck’s global expertise in the discovery of novel therapeutic candidates As per the deal, Protillion will receive an undisclosed upfront payment & ~$510M in research, development, & commercial milestone payments for the successful development of multiple…

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XtalPi Secures Over $400M Partnership to Develop GPCR-Targeted Small Molecule Therapy

Shots: XtalPi has entered into a strategic partnership with a biopharmaceutical company to develop an oral small molecule against G protein-coupled receptor XtalPi will leverage its structure-based drug design platform, combining quantum physics, generative AI, large-scale automated chemical synthesis orchestrated by a multi-agent system to accelerate Design-Make-Test-Analyze (DMTA) cycles As per the deal, XtalPi will receive…

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Lundbeck Partners with Cradle to Accelerate AI-Driven Biotherapeutics Discovery

Shots: Lundbeck and Cradle entered a partnership to leverage AI-powered protein engineering for the discovery and optimization of biotherapeutics, with an initial focus on 2 antibody programs targeting CNS diseases Lundbeck will deploy Cradle’s generative AI platform in its first end-to-end AI-guided protein engineering workflow, using iterative feedback from experimental data to discover & optimize…

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Alnylam and Inceptive Enter ~$2B Collaboration to Accelerate AI-Powered Discovery of RNAi Therapeutics

Shots: Alnylam Pharmaceuticals & Inceptive Nucleics have entered into a strategic collaboration to accelerate the discovery of novel RNAi therapeutics The collaboration is valued at up to $2B, with $30M upfront, incl. cash & an equity investment in Inceptive. Inceptive will also receive additional preclinical, regulatory, & commercial milestone payments Collaboration combines Alnylam’s RNAi expertise…

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NeuroPace Receives the US FDA Approval for ECoG Assistant to Advance AI-Driven Epilepsy Care

Shots: The US FDA has approved ECoG Assistant, an AI-powered clinician tool designed to support epilepsy management using data from the RNS System, with NeuroPace debuting the tool at ASSFN’26 ECoG Assistant was developed using 124,450 epileptologist-labeled intracranial EEG records & identifies ECoGs of Interest, enabling clinicians to review long-term EEG trends & circadian activity…

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