{"id":203842,"date":"2026-04-20T00:38:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T04:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/penn-researchers-use-ai-to-accelerate-rna-drug-development\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T00:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T04:50:12","slug":"penn-researchers-use-ai-to-accelerate-rna-drug-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/penn-researchers-use-ai-to-accelerate-rna-drug-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Penn researchers use AI to accelerate RNA drug development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedp.com\/article\/2026\/04\/penn-medicine-airfoundry-ai-driven-mrna-treatment-research\">Penn researchers use AI to accelerate RNA drug development<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedp.com\/article\/2026\/04\/penn-medicine-airfoundry-ai-driven-mrna-treatment-research\">https:\/\/www.thedp.com\/article\/2026\/04\/penn-medicine-airfoundry-ai-driven-mrna-treatment-research<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-20 00:38:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.thedp.com\">www.thedp.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Penn researchers have established the National Science Foundation Artificial Intelligence-driven RNA Foundry (AIRFoundry) to revolutionize the delivery of RNA-based therapies through advanced AI and automation technologies.<\/li>\n<li>Funded by a $18 million, six-year grant from the United States National Science Foundation (NSF), the initiative aims to &#8220;transform how RNA is designed, synthesized, and delivered.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The center focuses on democratizing access to RNA technology by reducing technical barriers, allowing more disciplines to leverage RNA tools.<\/li>\n<li>Led by chemical and biomolecular engineering professor Daeyeon Lee, AIRFoundry seeks to build an open platform for collaborative research, with a vision to lower entry barriers to RNA technology.<\/li>\n<li>Third-year graduate student Andrew Hanna contributes to developing lipid nanoparticle formulations to generate datasets for machine learning, aiming to speed up drug development through more predictive systems.<\/li>\n<li>The ultimate goal is to reduce extensive trial-and-error testing in drug development by utilizing AI-driven data and recommendations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Penn researchers use AI to accelerate RNA drug development https:\/\/www.thedp.com\/article\/2026\/04\/penn-medicine-airfoundry-ai-driven-mrna-treatment-research Publish Date: 2026-04-20 00:38:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":203843,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/snworksceo.imgix.net\/dpn\/0d44695c-6222-4bfb-b7ea-5a155765bd88.sized-1000x1000.jpg?w=800&h=600","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-203842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203842"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203844,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203842\/revisions\/203844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}