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ReviewNature medicine2025

Artificial intelligence in drug development.

Kang Zhang, Xin Yang, Yifei Wang, Yunfang Yu, Niu Huang, Gen Li, Xiaokun Li, Joseph C Wu, Shengyong Yang

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Review in Nature medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 227 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

227 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Kang Zhang *Eye Hospital and Institute for Advanced Study on Eye Health and Diseases, Institute for clinical Data Science, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China. kang.zhang@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0002-4549-1697
Xin Yang *Department of Biotherapy, Cancer Center and State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
Yifei Wang *Department of Biotherapy, Cancer Center and State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.ORCID 0000-0002-8873-613X
Yunfang Yu *Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Niu HuangNational Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, China.ORCID 0000-0002-6912-033X
Gen LiEye Hospital and Institute for Advanced Study on Eye Health and Diseases, Institute for clinical Data Science, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China.
Xiaokun LiState Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Drugs and Large-Scale Preparation, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China.
Joseph C WuCardiovascular Research Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
Shengyong YangDepartment of Biotherapy, Cancer Center and State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China. yangsy@scu.edu.cn.ORCID 0000-0001-5147-3746

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Drug development is a complex and time-consuming endeavor that traditionally relies on the experience of drug developers and trial-and-error experimentation. The advent of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, particularly emerging large language models and generative AI, is poised to redefine this paradigm. The integration of AI-driven methodologies into the drug development pipeline has already heralded subtle yet meaningful enhancements in both the efficiency and effectiveness of this process. Here we present an overview of recent advancements in AI applications across the entire drug development workflow, encompassing the identification of disease targets, drug discovery, preclinical and clinical studies, and post-market surveillance. Lastly, we critically examine the prevailing challenges to highlight promising future research directions in AI-augmented drug development.

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Artificial IntelligenceDrug DevelopmentDrug DiscoveryHumans

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