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An unprecedented number of potentially disruptive therapeutic technologies are under development. Forward-looking policies, incentives and infrastructure are needed to harness these advances to provide effective and globally equitable healthcare.
The CACHE hit-finding competition highlights the potential of AI to identify small molecules that bind to hard-to-drug targets — and the long road ahead for these computational screening approaches.
A public–private partnership managed by the FNIH aims to address biological, manufacturing and regulatory challenges to the development of gene therapies for rare diseases.
Open science initiatives that harness human genomic and genetic data could help increase the likelihood of successfully developing new drugs for neurodegenerative diseases.