Antiviral AI

Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine combined AI algorithms with traditional laboratory methods to uncover promising drug leads against human enterovirus, the pathogen behind most cases of hand, foot, and mouth disease. “The approach is especially powerful when time, budget or other constraints limit the amount of data you can generate up front,” says César de la Fuente (center), also of the School of Engineering and Applied Science. “We are collapsing what used to be months of trial and error into days.”