Toronto pharmacy group wins $2.3 million for therapeutic peptide AI database

The wire

1. 01A team led by assistant professor Joseph Brown at the University of Toronto's Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy received $2.3 million USD to build a peptide database and AI training model.
2. 02Computational screening pipelines are becoming a standard early step in peptide drug discovery, upstream of the candidates clinicians eventually see.
3. 03No timeline, funder details or target indications were disclosed in the announcement.

From the source

New project receives $2.3 million to develop a database and AI model to identify therapeutic peptides

A group of scientists led by Joseph Brown, assistant professor at the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, has received $2.3 million USD in funding to develop a database and AI training model to identify peptides with therapeutic potential.