Impact of AI on Pharma, Drug Discovery, Drug Development and Clinical Trials.10m lives Will…

Dr Patrick Dixon is a global keynote speaker on pharma and AI, author 19 books - here comment after AI PHARMA KEYNOTE at NextGen BioMed 2025.

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Faster drug development for pharma companies

Every aspect of drug development is being accelerated by AI, and pharma companies are likely to be spending over $4bn every year on AI by 2027.

AI is already being widely used to discover new drugs, which could drive up to $50bn a year of future sales.

The number of new drugs developed using AI has already increased ten times in a single year, as shown in recent licence applications in the US.

For example, AI is being used to:

◆ Identify potentially useful molecules for tests

◆ Design and build completely new molecules to fit cell

receptors, etc.

◆ Automate testing of hundreds of molecules

◆ Streamline clinical trials

◆ Analyse data

◆ Write up results

Morgan Stanley has calculated that every 2.5% improvement in preclinical development success rates could lead to an additional thirty new drug approvals over ten years.

Patrick Dixon gave a keynote on AI IMPACT ON PHARMA at NextGen BioMed 2025: https://oxfordglobal.com/nextgen-biomed/events/nextgen-biomed/look-back

AI will scan 10 million potential drug molecules

Often the key is to identify a target receptor on the surface of human cells, or bacteria or viruses, and to work out its precise shape.

Once that happens, AI is used to scan hundreds of thousands of potential molecules that might fit that receptor, using libraries of existing substances.

AI can also design new molecules from scratch, ones that have never existed before in the history of our planet, and work out how best to manufacture them.

Much of early drug discovery is ‘grunt’ work – highly repetitive, and very time-consuming for pharma teams.

However, the entire process is suitable for automation.

We can use AI to grow hundreds of samples of human cells from a biopsy of cancer, each group of cells in a separate vial; then to drop a tiny amount of a molecule into each vial to see what happens, using hundreds of different substances. Each vial needs to be separately monitored, cells analysed, results quantified.

Every step in that process can be automated and overseen by AI.

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* Dr Patrick Dixon is one of the world's best known keynote speakers on global trends, often described as Europe’s leading Futurist. Author of 19 books, he has advised over 400 of the world’s largest corporations, often sharing platforms with their CEOs at their most important global events. His clients include Google, Microsoft, IBM, Intel, LinkedIn and many of the world’s largest manufacturers as well as governments. Patrick is a cancer physician by first training and his first start-up company some decades years ago was an AI-simulator, using computers to talk to and diagnose patients. His website globalchange.com has had 15 million unique visitors with 9 million video views.

How AI will change your life - Contents of Book

Chapter Headings:

Part One: How AI Is Evolving

1 The Truth About Artificial Intelligence 

2 Super-Smart AI and a Reality Check 

Part Two: How AI Will Shape Our Future World

3 Workplace AI

4 Office Workers - impact of AI

5 Healthcare - how AI will drive better health

6 Pharma, Disease Prevention and Wellness - how AI will transform pharma

7 Education – in School and at College - AI challenges to education

8 Adult Education and ‘Truth’ - why AI will redefine "Truth"

9 Software Development - AI will help but less than many think

10 Film-making and Music - get ready for AI revolution

11 Search Engines, Social Media, Publishing and Art - massive AI impact

12 Marketing - most campaigns will be driven entirely by AI

13 Retail - AI will have huge impact on retail eg fashion

14 Travel and Leisure - multiple impacts of AI on airlines, auto industry etc

15 Relationships - relationships with AI bots, and impact of AI on human to human relationships

16 Food Industry - AI will drive greater efficiency

17 Satellites and Space Colonies - impossible without AI

18 Manufacturing, Logistics and Supply Chains - major benefits from AI

19 Construction and Cities - AI will transform construction and the built environment

20 Environment - AI will consume huge amounts of power but also enable sustainability initiatives

21 Pensions and Wealth Management - AI already controls most investment decisions

22 Corporate and Retail Banking, and Insurance - AI poses major threats but will deliver cost savings

23 Cybersecurity - greatest risk from AI right now

24 Surveillance - AI is every dictator's dream tech

25 Military and War - get ready for AI driven wars

26 Government - AI will enhance government and threaten democracy 

Part Three: How Should We Respond?

27 Ten Steps for Governments 

28 Twelve Steps for Individuals 

29 Ten Steps for Companies 

30 Postscript – A Story