VANTAI


Associated tags: Intelligence, Proximity, Drug discovery, Protein, Pharmaceutical industry, ML, Health, Biotechnology, Science, Artificial Intelligence, Pharmaceutical

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VantAI Expands Scientific Advisory Board with Leaders in Protein Design and Generative AI

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Wednesday, May 22, 2024

VantAI , a company focused on generative AI-enabled drug discovery, today announced the appointments of Dr. Ian Churcher and Dr. Bradley Pentelute to its Scientific Advisory Board (SAB).

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  • VantAI , a company focused on generative AI-enabled drug discovery, today announced the appointments of Dr. Ian Churcher and Dr. Bradley Pentelute to its Scientific Advisory Board (SAB).
  • Pentelute and Churcher join an existing SAB comprising experts in protein design, whole-proteome structural interactomics, and generative AI for small molecule drug design.
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    “We are pleased to welcome Ian and Bradley, who are renowned experts in protein design and drug discovery to VantAI’s Scientific Advisory Board,” said Dr. Zachary Carpenter, CEO & Founder, VantAI.
  • “By developing and applying generative AI to characterize the complexity of protein interactions within the cell, we can discover previously unrecognized protein interactions for drug discovery.

VantAI Appoints John Cuozzo as Senior Vice President, Head of Drug Discovery

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Wednesday, May 8, 2024

VantAI, a leader in generative AI and drug discovery, today announced the appointment of John Cuozzo, PhD as SVP, Head of Drug Discovery.

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  • VantAI, a leader in generative AI and drug discovery, today announced the appointment of John Cuozzo, PhD as SVP, Head of Drug Discovery.
  • Cuozzo is an experienced scientific leader with a strong track record of building novel discovery platforms and leading successful drug discovery programs.
  • Prior to Relay, Cuozzo was Head of Drug Discovery at ZebiAI, a company that applied massive DNA-encoded library datasets to power machine learning for drug discovery.
  • As Head of Drug Discovery, Cuozzo will lead drug discovery strategy and technology development to expand the company's research capabilities.

VantAI Collaborates With Google Cloud to Harness NVIDIA GPUs for Building Protein Interaction Foundation Models

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Wednesday, May 1, 2024

VantAI, a pioneer in generative AI-enabled drug discovery, is working with Google Cloud to power large scale distributed training and further improve internal operations.

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  • VantAI, a pioneer in generative AI-enabled drug discovery, is working with Google Cloud to power large scale distributed training and further improve internal operations.
  • This collaboration is set to provide VantAI with NVIDIA H100 GPUs, a move that VantAI believes will help accelerate the training of geometric foundation models for making protein-protein interactions programmable.
  • VantAI's mission to exponentially expand the space of druggable targets by making protein interactions programmable takes a strong leap forward with this collaboration.
  • “Google Cloud is committed to providing the most open ecosystem and helping customers accelerate their digital transformations,” said Shweta Maniar, global director of Life Science Strategy & Solutions, Google Cloud.

VantAI Enters Collaboration With Bristol Myers Squibb to Accelerate Molecular Glue Drug Discovery Through Artificial Intelligence

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Tuesday, February 13, 2024

VantAI , a company focused on generative AI-enabled drug discovery, and Bristol Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY), a leading pharmaceutical company, have entered into a strategic collaboration to discover new molecular glues for therapeutic targets of interest.

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  • VantAI , a company focused on generative AI-enabled drug discovery, and Bristol Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY), a leading pharmaceutical company, have entered into a strategic collaboration to discover new molecular glues for therapeutic targets of interest.
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    The collaboration will focus on leveraging VantAI’s generative AI platform to design molecular glues as small molecule therapeutics.
  • “At VantAI, we view glue discovery as a challenging ‘geometric puzzle’, and we believe that artificial intelligence is the best tool to find the missing piece.
  • Our collaboration with Bristol Myers Squibb is a significant step forward in our journey to use generative AI to accelerate molecular glue discovery and ultimately bring new therapies to patients.”
    “This partnership with VantAI reflects our strategy of leveraging predictive sciences to identify novel molecular glues directed toward biologically validated targets,” said Neil Bence, PhD, Vice President, Head of Oncology Discovery, Bristol Myers Squibb.

VantAI Appoints Jae Won Kim as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer

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Wednesday, February 7, 2024

VantAI, a leader in generative AI and drug discovery, announced the appointment of Jae Won Kim as Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Chief Financial Officer (CFO).

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  • VantAI, a leader in generative AI and drug discovery, announced the appointment of Jae Won Kim as Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Chief Financial Officer (CFO).
  • Having led one of the largest deals in induced proximity history, she brings over 15 years of deal making experience to VantAI and its mission.
  • As COO/CFO of VantAI, Ms. Kim will oversee the company's operations, including finance, legal and corporate development functions.
  • "I am thrilled to join this incredible team at VantAI at this exciting time,” said Ms. Kim.

VantAI Secures Renewed Support from Blueprint Medicines to Chart New Frontiers in Induced Proximity Drug Discovery

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Tuesday, January 9, 2024

The agreement expands the collaboration initiated in February 2022 to include an additional target program and names VantAI and Blueprint Medicines as the exclusive partners.

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  • The agreement expands the collaboration initiated in February 2022 to include an additional target program and names VantAI and Blueprint Medicines as the exclusive partners.
  • The partnership aims to challenge what is possible in Induced Proximity drug discovery, pursuing targets and molecular mechanisms that have traditionally been considered undruggable, or challenging to modulate, with traditional small molecule or biological therapeutics.
  • Proximity modulators, including molecular glues, hetero-bifunctional compounds, and protein-protein interaction (PPI) blockers, are specialized small molecules designed to influence how proteins interact within cells.
  • Blueprint Medicines has the option, at its sole discretion, to expand the collaboration to include a fourth target program.

VantAI Announces Formation of Scientific Advisory Board

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Friday, September 29, 2023

NEW YORK, Sept. 29, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- VantAI, a leading company focused on the application of artificial intelligence to drug discovery, today announced its newly formed Scientific Advisory Board (SAB).

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  • NEW YORK, Sept. 29, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- VantAI, a leading company focused on the application of artificial intelligence to drug discovery, today announced its newly formed Scientific Advisory Board (SAB).
  • A world expert in computational protein design, Dr. Correia pioneered the use of protein surface representations together with VantAI Chief Scientist Michael Bronstein.
  • Dr. Liu joins the team to assist VantAI in translating this data-rich view of the proteome into induced proximity drug discovery.
  • “VantAI is navigating the forefront of AI-driven protein and molecule design, domains I'm deeply invested in,” said Dr. Correia.

Geometric Deep Learning Pioneer Michael Bronstein joins VantAI as Chief Scientist in Residence to Help Drive Artificial Intelligence Breakthroughs in Drug Discovery

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Thursday, July 27, 2023

NEW YORK, July 27, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- VantAI, a leader in ML technologies for drug discovery, is excited to announce the appointment of Dr. Michael Bronstein as Chief Scientist in Residence.

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  • NEW YORK, July 27, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- VantAI, a leader in ML technologies for drug discovery, is excited to announce the appointment of Dr. Michael Bronstein as Chief Scientist in Residence.
  • Bronstein is the DeepMind Professor of AI at the University of Oxford and an internationally acclaimed scientist with a track record of excellence in geometric deep learning.
  • This appointment underscores VantAI’s commitment to innovation in the realm of artificial intelligence (AI) and drug discovery, marking a new chapter in VantAI’s continued effort to drive generative AI capabilities in induced proximity drug discovery.
  • “We are thrilled to have Michael join the VantAI team” said Zach Carpenter, VantAI’s Chief Executive Officer.

VantAI Forms Research Collaboration with Boehringer Ingelheim to Identify Novel Protein Degraders

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Wednesday, April 20, 2022

NEW YORK and INGELHEIM, Germany, April 20, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- VantAI, an AI-first induced-proximity company, and Boehringer Ingelheim today announced that the two companies have entered into an early discovery research collaboration focused on degrading traditionally undruggable targets.

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  • NEW YORK and INGELHEIM, Germany, April 20, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- VantAI, an AI-first induced-proximity company, and Boehringer Ingelheim today announced that the two companies have entered into an early discovery research collaboration focused on degrading traditionally undruggable targets.
  • The collaboration will initially focus on one degrader program combined with multiple proprietary E3 ligase platforms.
  • In addition, Boehringer Ingelheim has exclusive commercial licenses to the degraders that are developed for the initial target under this agreement and will be responsible for global development and commercialization.
  • VantAI leverages the cell's most powerful systems through rationally-designed small molecule proximity inducers - building on nature's blueprint using Deep Learning.

VantAI Announces Multi-Year Protein Degrader Discovery Collaboration with Janssen

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Wednesday, April 13, 2022

NEW YORK, April 13, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- VantAI, an AI-first induced-proximity company, today announced it has entered into a multi-year collaboration agreement with Janssen Pharmaceutica NV, one of the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson (Janssen).

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  • NEW YORK, April 13, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- VantAI, an AI-first induced-proximity company, today announced it has entered into a multi-year collaboration agreement with Janssen Pharmaceutica NV, one of the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson (Janssen).
  • Under the terms of the agreement, VantAI and Janssen will leverage VantAI's geometric deep learning platform to potentially generate novel molecular-glue and hetero-bifunctional, protein degrader drug candidates for important disease targets and collaborate on the discovery and implementation of novel E3 ubiquitin ligase platforms.
  • Under the terms of the agreement, the collaboration will initially focus on two degrader programs as well as a novel E3 ligase platform development program.
  • In addition, Janssen will receive an exclusive commercial license to all programs under the collaboration and will be responsible for global development and commercialization.