{"id":227025,"date":"2026-06-05T18:26:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T22:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/astrazeneca-ceo-says-ai-is-reshaping-drug-development-and-helping-boost-the-odds-of-success\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T18:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T22:35:11","slug":"astrazeneca-ceo-says-ai-is-reshaping-drug-development-and-helping-boost-the-odds-of-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/astrazeneca-ceo-says-ai-is-reshaping-drug-development-and-helping-boost-the-odds-of-success\/","title":{"rendered":"AstraZeneca CEO says AI is reshaping drug development \u2014 and helping boost the odds of success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/06\/05\/astrazeneca-ceo-says-ai-is-reshaping-drug-development-and-helping-boost-the-odds-of-success.html\">AstraZeneca CEO says AI is reshaping drug development \u2014 and helping boost the odds of success<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/06\/05\/astrazeneca-ceo-says-ai-is-reshaping-drug-development-and-helping-boost-the-odds-of-success.html\">https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/06\/05\/astrazeneca-ceo-says-ai-is-reshaping-drug-development-and-helping-boost-the-odds-of-success.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-05 18:26:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cnbc.com\">www.cnbc.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>AstraZeneca CEO Pascal Soriot stated that artificial intelligence (AI) is aiding drugmakers in developing medicines more efficiently and guiding smarter choices in the research process.<\/li>\n<li>Soriot highlighted AI&#8217;s role in improving productivity by expediting and optimizing the design of new drugs during the research process.<\/li>\n<li>AI is reportedly aiding AstraZeneca in drug discovery and development, from identifying new therapeutic targets to enhancing the design of potential drugs and eliminating potential side effects.<\/li>\n<li>Through a partnership with Tempus AI, AstraZeneca utilizes AI models to analyze comprehensive data, thereby improving drug discovery and maximizing the likelihood of success in late-stage trials.<\/li>\n<li>Soriot emphasized that AI helps in making better decisions about which drugs to advance, which can significantly boost the probability of success in pivotal Phase 3 trials. This could lead to substantial productivity improvements due to the high costs of these trials \u2014 mentioned to be between $300 million to $500 million.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AstraZeneca CEO says AI is reshaping drug development \u2014 and helping boost the odds of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":227026,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108198691-1757936194403-gettyimages-2221649488-Astrazeneca_Office_Building_in_Shanghai.jpeg?v=1760116750&w=1920&h=1080","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-227025","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\/227025"}],"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=227025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227027,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227025\/revisions\/227027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}