{"id":530982,"date":"2026-01-21T00:17:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T00:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/530982\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T00:17:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T00:17:15","slug":"google-backed-isomorphic-labs-delays-clinical-trial-timeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/530982\/","title":{"rendered":"Google-backed Isomorphic Labs delays clinical trial timeline"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Jan 20 (Reuters) &#8211; Isomorphic Labs, which uses <a href=\"https:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/ai\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:artificial intelligence;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">artificial intelligence<\/a> for drug discovery, \u200bexpects to have its first clinical \u200ctrials by the end of 2026, founder and CEO \u200cDemis Hassabis said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">The comments, made at an event at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, signal a \u2060delay in the \u200cGoogle-backed startup&#8217;s ambitions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Hassabis had said last year the company would have \u200dAI-designed drugs in clinical trials by the end of 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Companies have been increasingly touting the \u200breal-world applications of AI, where the \u200ctechnology can be used to speed up research and development and shorten drug discovery timelines in the healthcare sector.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Isomorphic was founded in 2021 as a spin-off from \u2060Alphabet&#8217;s AI research subsidiary, \u200bGoogle DeepMind, which is \u200bheaded by Hassabis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">One of DeepMind and Hassabis&#8217; most celebrated breakthroughs was AlphaFold, \u200dan AI \u2060program that can predict protein structures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Isomorphic last year raised $600 million in its first-ever \u2060external funding round led by Thrive Capital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">(Reporting by \u200cJeffrey Dastin and Deborah Sophia; \u200cEditing by Shreya Biswas)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan 20 (Reuters) &#8211; Isomorphic Labs, which uses artificial intelligence for drug discovery, \u200bexpects to have its first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":530983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[21],"tags":[691,738,3738,158762,24304,102098,235391,158,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-530982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-clinical-trials","tag-demis-hassabis","tag-drug-discovery","tag-google-deepmind","tag-isomorphic-labs","tag-technology","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115930218014256987","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}