What will it take for AI to change drug discovery?
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What will it take for AI to change drug discovery? Some thoughts on avoiding self delusion. Ruxandra Teslo Nov 09, 2025 188 36 36 Share One of the most important empirical observations about modern drug development is Eroom’s Law : the finding, first articulated by Jack Scannell, that the number of new drugs approved per billion dollars of R&D spending has halved roughly every nine years. In other words, drug discovery has been getting exponentially less efficient, even as biomedical science has advanced dramatically. Sequencing is cheaper, computing is more powerful, high-throughput screens a
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