AI-powered medicinal chemistry and translational drug development
Medicinal chemistry sits at the center of modern drug discovery, yet translating molecular designs into approved medicines remains slow, expensive, and prone to high attrition across the pipeline from target identification to clinical validation. Artificial intelligence (AI) is beginning to reshape this landscape by enabling large-scale integration, interpretation, and generation of chemical, biological, and clinical data for hypothesis generation, chemical space exploration, and iterative cycles of model-guided…
AI integration of chemical, biological and clinical data is supporting more informed rational drug design and has contributed to a small but growing number of AI-guided molecules entering clinical development.
AI-driven medicinal chemistry is limited by data scarcity and inconsistency, model generalizability and interpretability issues, and a persistent gap between in silico predictions and validated candidates, with systematic evidence of faster or better drug delivery still accruing.
Real-world impact is constrained by data scarcity and inconsistency, limited generalizability and interpretability, evolving regulatory expectations, and a persistent gap between in silico predictions and experimentally validated candidates, with systematic evidence on better drugs or faster timelines still accruing.
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- Peer-reviewedChemical Society Reviews2026-08-25
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