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Is “Rescuing Failed Drugs with AI” a Category Now?

Inside the growing bet that AI can find the patients pharma's failed trials missed...

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Andrii Buvailo, PhD and Roman Kasianov
May 21, 2026
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In April, a Toronto-based startup called Biossil came out of stealth with a total of $70 million in funding, co-led by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund and OpenAI.

Their thesis is a bit different from what most AI biopharma companies are doing. Instead of designing new molecules, Biossil uses AI to dig through late-stage clinical failures and figure out whic…

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