The Rundown: Isomorphic Labs AI-created drugs near human trials

Posted on July 8, 2025 by michelleclarke2015

💊 Isomorphic Labs’ AI-created drugs near human trials
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The Rundown: Alphabet’s AI-powered drug discovery company, Isomorphic Labs, is preparing to start its first human clinical trials for its AI-designed cancer drugs, with an ultimate goal of “solving all diseases.”
The details:
The DeepMind spinoff has spent four years developing drugs using AlphaFold 3, an AI system for predicting protein structures and molecular interactions.The team secured $600M in fresh funding in April, fueling both in-house drug candidates and major multi-billion dollar partnerships with Novartis and Eli Lilly. The company envisions creating a “drug design engine” that could eventually generate treatments on demand to “solve all diseases.”Human dosing is expected to begin soon, with oncology as the first clinical focus, and plans to license successful candidates after early trials.
Why it matters: If Isomorphic’s approach delivers, pharma’s previous trial-and-error model could give way to a faster, more precise era where AI can design new treatments that get tested via simulations before entering the lab. “Solving all diseases” is a utopian vision — but at least one Nobel Prize winner agrees that it is in sight.

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Life event that changes all: Horse riding accident in Zimbabwe in 1993, a fractured skull et al including bipolar anxiety, chronic fatigue …. co-morbidities (Nietzche 'He who has the reason why can deal with any how' details my health history from 1993 to date). 17th 2017 August operation for breast cancer (no indications just an appointment came from BreastCheck through the Post). Trinity College Dublin Business Economics and Social Studies (but no degree) 1997-2003; UCD 1997/1998 night classes) essays, projects, writings. Trinity Horizon Programme 1997/98 (Centre for Women Studies Trinity College Dublin/St. Patrick's Foundation (Professor McKeon) EU Horizon funded: research study of 15 women (I was one of this group and it became the cornerstone of my journey to now 2017) over 9 mth period diagnosed with depression and their reintegration into society, with special emphasis on work, arts, further education; Notes from time at Trinity Horizon Project 1997/98; Articles written for Irishhealth.com 2003/2004; St Patricks Foundation monthly lecture notes for a specific period in time; Selection of Poetry including poems written by people I know; Quotations 1998-2017; other writings mainly with theme of social justice under the heading Citizen Journalism Ireland. Letters written to friends about life in Zimbabwe; Family history including Michael Comyn KC, my grandfather, my grandmother's family, the O'Donnellan ffrench Blake-Forsters; Moral wrong: An acrimonious divorce but the real injustice was the Catholic Church granting an annulment – you can read it and make your own judgment, I have mine. Topics I have written about include annual Brain Awareness week, Mashonaland Irish Associataion in Zimbabwe, Suicide (a life sentence to those left behind); Nostalgia: Tara Hill, Co. Meath.
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