E36: Patients First? Why Pharma Sleeping on GenAI Costs Lives
The most uncomfortable 20 minutes in pharma this year: How GenAI achieves 90% drug discovery success while you're at 0.01%.Verified facts from yesterday's Nature paper and last week's industry announcements.Breaking down:8 successful cancer drug candidates from 9 attempts (published yesterday, peer-reviewed)Traditional Phase 2 success: 28-40% | AI-enhanced: 89% (CDK2 target Pfizer couldn't crack)1 billion molecular evaluations per week vs your 1,000 per year"Novel scaffolds": How AI generates entirely new patent families (20-year monopolies)The companies already shipping: Atomwise, BenevolentAI, Recursion (with Phase 2 proof)Why "it's not our core competency" is a death sentence for your pipelinePlus: The 6-month committee meeting that costs 500 cancer patients their lives.Every day you "observe further" is a day your competitors get closer to making you obsolete.