Analysis

April 15, 2020

How AI is finding drugs to treat coronavirus

Artificial intelligence companies are helping speed up the process of discovering which drugs — existing or new — can be used to treat coronavirus.


Maija Palmer

5 min read

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“It still makes the hair stand up at the back of my neck, thinking about it,” says Peter Richardson, vice president of pharmacology at BenevolentAI, describing the moment when he realised that baricitinib, a drug previously used for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, could be an effective treatment for Covid-19.

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