OWKIN CEO Outlines AI's 'Transfer Learning' Promise In Drug Discovery

Privately owned startup OWKIN will use $11m raised in a Series A funding for new hires and building its predictive artificial intelligence platform which it will launch in early 2019 to speed drug discovery.

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Nascent artificial intelligence (AI) group OWKIN is $11m in newly raised funds to hire medical specialists and prepare its proprietary Socrates technology platform for launch next year aimed at helping pharma R&D teams and hospital researchers discover and develop new targets, biomarkers and drugs faster.

The privately owned startup is building a privacy-preserving platform that uses machine-learning based modeling to analyze molecular and imaging libraries...

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