Drug discovery still takes a decade and billions; BioLLM builder to speak in Lisbon
dscape · x · 2026-08-19
The quoted post notes that discovering a new drug still takes over a decade and billions of dollars, and most attempts fail because biology is staggeringly complex. While most of AI races to build better chatbots, the languages that could cure disease get a fraction of the attention.
Cristiana Carpinteiro, a bioengineer turned ML engineer at Loka, builds BioLLMs to help biotech and pharma find drugs faster, and previously built AI to detect Alzheimer's from blood samples. She will speak at an event in Lisbon on Sept 23–24.
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