Award type :
Product Development Award
Product Development Award
Product type :
Digital Health
Digital Health
Award year :
2021
2021
Project start date :
09 / 16 / 2021
09 / 16 / 2021
Project end date :
09 / 30 / 2022
09 / 30 / 2022
Project duration (months) :
12
12
Development stage :
Early Validation
Early Validation
Target disease :
Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis
Region served :
World
World
Recipient organization / Country of funding recipient organization :
Standigm / Republic of Korea
Standigm / Republic of Korea
Collaborator(s) / Country :
Institut Pasteur Korea (IPK) / Republic of Korea
Institut Pasteur Korea (IPK) / Republic of Korea
Funding amount(KRW) :
300,000,000
300,000,000
In collaboration with Institut Pasteur Korea, Standigm aims to assess the implementation and validation of an AI-based drug discovery platform for discovering new tuberculosis treatment drug leads with automated early discovery. With the aid of hit clustering, compound selection, in vitro assay testing, and prioritization of the final candidates, Standigm aims to validate the automated approach and refine the algorithm. In response to the urgent need for new anti-tubercular drugs, particularly in face of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, the assessment of such AI-driven drug discovery platforms has the potential to accelerate the overall drug discovery process and to be applied widely to drug discovery in various disease areas.