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ReviewTherapeutic advances in drug safety2025

Artificial intelligence in drug development: reshaping the therapeutic landscape.

Sarfaraz K Niazi, Zamara Mariam

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Review in Therapeutic advances in drug safety, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Sarfaraz K NiaziCollege of Pharmacy, University of Illinois Chicago, 833 South Wood Street, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0513-0336
Zamara MariamCentre for Health and Life Sciences, Coventry University, Coventry, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming medication research and development, giving clinicians new treatment options. Over the past 30 years, machine learning, deep learning, and neural networks have revolutionized drug design, target identification, and clinical trial predictions. AI has boosted pharmaceutical R&D (research and development) by identifying new therapeutic targets, improving chemical designs, and predicting complicated protein structures. Furthermore, generative AI is accelerating the development and re-engineering of medicinal molecules to cater to both common and rare diseases. Although, to date, no AI-generated medicinal drug has been FDA-approved, HLX-0201 for fragile X syndrome and new molecules for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis have entered clinical trials. However, AI models are generally considered "black boxes," making their conclusions challenging to understand and limiting the potential due to a lack of model transparency and algorithmic bias. Despite these obstacles, AI-driven drug discovery has substantially reduced development times and costs, expediting the process and financial risks of bringing new medicines to market. In the future, AI is expected to continue to impact pharmaceutical innovation positively, making life-saving drug discoveries faster, more efficient, and more widespread.

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algorithmsartificial intelligenceblack boxesFDAmedicine discovery

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PMID40008227
PMCPMC11851753

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