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Atomwise's Abraham Heifets Uses AI to Speed the Development of Medications

Abraham Heifets is using artifical intelligence to ensure the safety of cancer patients while they undergo treatment.
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Abraham Heifets is the CEO and co-founder of Atomwise, a biotech company using patented deep learning artificial intelligence technology to predict and discover which drugs will be better, safer and more potent for cancer patients.

What is your moonshot? To make novel, better and safer drugs, with the ultimate goal to get medicines into the hands of patients faster.

How do you do that? We're trying to solve how you modify a cell that's in the runaway

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