Insilico Medicine enters research collaboration with the University of Zurich to apply Insilico's generative Artificial Intelligence platform for the discovery of potential therapeutics for Cystinosis
NEW YORK and ZURICH, March 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The MIKADO group, a translational team at the UZH focused on generating evidence-driven insights to understand and treat rare inherited kidney diseases, and Insilico Medicine, an end-to-end Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven drug discovery company, today announced a research and development collaboration designed to accelerate the discovery of transformative novel therapeutics for cystinosis. The duration of the initial research collaboration will be one year.
- Cystinosis slowly destroys the body's organs including the kidneys, eyes, thyroid, muscles, liver, pancreas, gonads, and brain.
- - The Mechanisms of Inherited Kidney Disorders (MIKADO) group at the University of Zurich (UZH) and Insilico Medicine will be working together to identify, rank, and annotate novel drug targets to identify potential therapeutics for cystinosis.
- The duration of the initial research collaboration will be one year.
- Insilico Medicine, an end-to-end artificial intelligence (AI)-driven drug discovery company, is connecting biology, chemistry, and clinical trials analysis using next-generation AI systems.