More and more, artificial intelligence is becoming inseparable from drug development. But it needs to be well integrated with the right people and support technologies in order to be successful, according to Josep Bassaganya-Riera, the founder and CEO of Nimmune Biopharma Inc. Nimmune has leveraged methods of AI-enabled drug discovery to develop a number of late-stage therapeutics using a strategic model Bassaganya-Riera first developed at Landos Biopharma Inc., a previous venture which was sold to Abbvie in 2024. As the founder of several other companies, Bassaganya-Riera has more than 20 years in the industry and he shared his insights and experience on the podcast about the crucial importance of getting technology and people in balance. The key, he said, is to have the right people in the same room interacting with each other and the technology.

Because artificial intelligence is such a new technology it comes with a mountain of unknowns. Integrating it into a pharmaceutical company presents a unique series of challenges, as a new survey from Verix shows. The report is based on responses from directors, vice presidents and C-suite executives in sales, marketing and brand management at pharmaceutical companies in the U.S. that have more than $100 million in annual revenue. Doron Aspitz, the CEO of Verix, talked about the new findings with the BioWorld Insider podcast and the profound shift that executives face as the new technology takes over an entire industry. The full Verix report can be found here.

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Google’s Scott Penberthy joins the podcast for a visionary discussion that scans the horizon for startling changes artificial intelligence will bring to drug development in the relatively near future. Among the gems and eyebrow raisers is talk of dramatic reductions in the time it takes to identify the right molecule for development and how digital clinical trials in the not-too-distant future will substantially shrink study times. This episode also provides a preview of the annual Biofuture conference. Each year, a group of trailblazers, disruptors and forward-thinking executives converge to evaluate and forecast the future of health care. This year, BioWorld is a gold sponsor of the Oct. 4-6 event in New York. If you attend, you'll have the chance to hear panels and join workshops and fireside chats with key opinion leaders like Penberthy.

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Guests Ryan Abbott, a professor of law and medicine, as well as the leader of the Artificial Inventor Project, and Jim Belfiore, senior vice president of innovation at Clarivate plc, have a discussion about the brave new world AI is creating.

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