Prof Andrew Hopkins' company uses AI for the discovery and creation of medicine.
As a student Andrew Hopkins came up an idea that would revolutionise the way life-saving drugs are created.
His parents both worked in factories in Port Talbot and he worked in its steelworks before going to university. Growing up in the shadow of the Port Talbot's steelworks, Prof Hopkins' love for science was ignited. ''The reason it costs so much is that most of the things we take into clinical trials fail. Around 96% of the drugs we make fail," he said.''If we use AI we can now conduct 90% fewer experiments in what we need to make, test and optimise a drug than traditionally has been the case.
Exscientia recently used AI in a clinical trial where they used their precision medicine method on a blood cancer patient's sample from a biopsy. ''What we found is in the control group, unfortunately, within a year everyone's cancer progressed. But in the group we tested, even after four years, 25% of patients were still progression free.''
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