The Ledger

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Ganguli: FDA-approved drugs target only 800 of roughly 20,000 human genes
“FDA approved drugs they target only 800 of the 20,000 known genes that we have, 20 to 25,000 known genes that we have.”
Surya Ganguli Oct 3, 2024 ▶ 11:01 AI at the Intersection of Bio | Vijay Pande, Surya Ganguli & Bowen Liu
Assertion Supported
Ganguli: ESM-3 model trained on 2.8 billion amino acid sequences
“ESM-III with evolutionary scale modeling did the same language modeling, but now on amino acid sequences of about 2.8 billion sequences, right?”
Surya Ganguli Oct 3, 2024 ▶ 5:02 AI at the Intersection of Bio | Vijay Pande, Surya Ganguli & Bowen Liu
Assertion Supported
Ganguli: Bringing a drug to market costs $2.5B and takes 10–15 years
“The cost of drug design, I mean, I know in the industry this is well known, but it's worth, worth emphasizing, it's 2.5 billion dollars per drug in 10 to 15 years, right?”
Surya Ganguli Oct 3, 2024 ▶ 10:33 AI at the Intersection of Bio | Vijay Pande, Surya Ganguli & Bowen Liu
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Ganguli: 90% of drug candidates fail to achieve FDA approval
“90% of drug candidates don't get FDA approval.”
Surya Ganguli Oct 3, 2024 ▶ 10:44 AI at the Intersection of Bio | Vijay Pande, Surya Ganguli & Bowen Liu
Assertion Supported
Ganguli: Drug output per billion dollars of R&D halves every nine years
“There's this law that the number of drugs brought to market per billion dollar spend is going down by half every nine years, right?”
Surya Ganguli Oct 3, 2024 ▶ 10:48 AI at the Intersection of Bio | Vijay Pande, Surya Ganguli & Bowen Liu
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Ganguli: 80% of clinical trials fail to meet enrollment targets
“Like, 80% of clinical trials just fail to meet enrollment targets, right?”
Surya Ganguli Oct 3, 2024 ▶ 22:51 AI at the Intersection of Bio | Vijay Pande, Surya Ganguli & Bowen Liu
Assertion Supported
Ganguli: Protein Data Bank contains roughly 200,000 solved structures
“We have about 200,000 or so solved protein structures in the protein data bank.”
Surya Ganguli Oct 3, 2024 ▶ 5:44 AI at the Intersection of Bio | Vijay Pande, Surya Ganguli & Bowen Liu
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