{"id":214746,"date":"2026-05-16T17:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T21:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/16\/david-mccormick-tours-ai-powered-biotech-labs-at-penn\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T01:35:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T05:35:20","slug":"david-mccormick-tours-ai-powered-biotech-labs-at-penn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/16\/david-mccormick-tours-ai-powered-biotech-labs-at-penn\/","title":{"rendered":"David McCormick tours AI-powered biotech labs at Penn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/david-mccormick-pennsylvania-university-biotech-artificial-intelligence\/\">David McCormick tours AI-powered biotech labs at Penn<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/david-mccormick-pennsylvania-university-biotech-artificial-intelligence\/\">https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/david-mccormick-pennsylvania-university-biotech-artificial-intelligence\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-16 17:10:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"whyy.org\">whyy.org<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>U.S. Senator Dave McCormick visited the University of Pennsylvania&#8217;s AIRFoundry lab to highlight the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in accelerating biomedical and drug development.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The AIRFoundry lab, funded by the National Science Foundation, utilizes AI, robotics, and automation to expedite the creation of RNA-based medicines and biotechnology applications.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>AI is facilitating faster research by enabling scientists to process vast data sets, predict successful drug formulations, and automate key parts of the drug discovery process, turning years of work into weeks.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The potential applications of AI-driven research extend beyond medicine to fields like agriculture and veterinary science, with the goal of significantly reducing the time and cost of drug development.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The visit highlighted the commercialization opportunities birthed from Penn&#8217;s research, such as InfiniFluidics, a company that has developed an AI-powered system to accelerate RNA-based drug treatment creation.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Penn is noted for its interdisciplinary approach to AI, highlighted by its unique undergraduate degree program in AI that emphasizes applications in health and robotics. <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The AI program aims to expand to 250 students next year, reflecting the growing importance and career opportunities in AI.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David McCormick tours AI-powered biotech labs at Penn https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/david-mccormick-pennsylvania-university-biotech-artificial-intelligence\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-16 17:10:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":214747,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/whyy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/dave-mccormick-andrew-hanna.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-214746","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\/214746"}],"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=214746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214748,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214746\/revisions\/214748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}