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ArticleNature biomedical engineering2026

A collaborative large language model for drug analysis.

Hongjian Zhou, Fenglin Liu, Jinge Wu, Wenjun Zhang, Guowei Huang, Lei Clifton, David Eyre, Haochen Luo, Fengyuan Liu, Kim Branson and 5 more

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Article in Nature biomedical engineering, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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15 authors.

Hongjian Zhou *Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Fenglin Liu *Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. fenglin.liu@eng.ox.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7715-5228
Jinge WuInstitute of Health Informatics, University College London, London, UK.
Wenjun ZhangInstitute of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Guowei HuangInstitute of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Lei CliftonApplied Digital Health, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
David EyreBig Data Institute, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5095-6367
Haochen LuoInstitute of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Fengyuan LiuInstitute of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0008-3451-6132
Kim BransonGlaxoSmithKline, London, UK.
Patrick SchwabGlaxoSmithKline, London, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2868-7794
Xian WuTencent Jarvis Lab, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1118-9710
Yefeng ZhengTencent Jarvis Lab, Beijing, China.
Anshul ThakurInstitute of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7006-1947
David A CliftonInstitute of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, have substantially helped in understanding human inquiries and generating textual content with human-level fluency. However, directly using LLMs in healthcare applications faces several problems. LLMs are prone to produce hallucinations, or fluent content that appears reasonable and genuine but that is factually incorrect. Ideally, the source of the generated content should be easily traced for clinicians to evaluate. We propose a knowledge-grounded collaborative large language model, DrugGPT, to make accurate, evidence-based and faithful recommendations that can be used for clinical decisions. DrugGPT incorporates diverse clinical-standard knowledge bases and introduces a collaborative mechanism that adaptively analyses inquiries, captures relevant knowledge sources and aligns these inquiries and knowledge sources when dealing with different drugs. We evaluate the proposed DrugGPT on drug recommendation, dosage recommendation, identification of adverse reactions, identification of potential drug-drug interactions and answering general pharmacology questions. DrugGPT outperforms a wide range of existing LLMs and achieves state-of-the-art performance across all metrics with fewer parameters than generic LLMs.

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LanguageDrug InteractionsHumansKnowledge BasesLarge Language ModelsPharmaceutical PreparationsPharmaceutical Preparations

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