VivoSim Labs, Inc. (NASDAQ: VIVS), a provider of AI-enabled New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) for preclinical safety, and Chemveda Life Sciences, an integrated contract research, development and manufacturing organization (CRDMO), today announced a strategic collaboration to test and screen AI-derived drug compounds in VivoSim’s human-relevant NAMkind™ 3D tissue models.
Artificial intelligence has changed how fast new drugs can be imagined. Generative models can now propose thousands of novel molecules in the time it once took to design a handful. What has not kept pace is the ability to know, early, which of those molecules will be safe and effective in people. Liver and gastrointestinal toxicity remain among the most common reasons promising drugs fail in the clinic, often after years of work and hundreds of millions of dollars.
VivoSim and Chemveda are built to close that gap. Under the collaboration, Chemveda will support the design, synthesis, optimization and development of AI-designed compounds for pharmaceutical and biotechnology clients, while VivoSim will evaluate selected compounds using its NAMkind™ Liver and NAMkind™ Intestine human tissue models, built from primary human cells. The result is a rapid design-make-test cycle in which toxicity and efficacy signals from human tissue reach the chemist while the molecule can still be changed. VivoSim’s prospective screens can evaluate more than 20 compounds in two weeks.
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