Merck KGaA data science lead: AI is the first technology that does the scientific work itself
elicitorg · x · 2026-11-02
Elicit CEO sat down with Parantu Shah, who leads data science at EMD Serono / Merck KGaA after 20+ years of ML in biology, on what AI means for drug discovery. Takeaways: stop searching, start judging evidence; AI errors compound, so build a harness around the model and treat it as your IP; siloed data is the real bottleneck; a pilot succeeded when the next department asked for it. His core claim: most technologies made scientists better informed — AI is the first that does the work itself.
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