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BMS牵手AI制药龙头,全面引入「AI科学家」!

WeChat: 智药局 Bioinformatics AI 2026-08-07
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TL;DR - Bristol Myers Squibb is expanding its long-running partnership with Schrödinger to deploy the Bunsen AI research-agent platform across all of its global R&D sites, alongside Schrödinger's RetroSynth retrosynthesis planning tool. It signals a large pharma moving AI from pilot computational chemistry into org-wide agentic infrastructure.

  • The deal builds on collaboration since 2020, when BMS R&D began routinely using Schrödinger's AI/physics-based computational tools in small-molecule pipelines; Bunsen now goes to every global R&D branch.
  • RetroSynth adds high-throughput evaluation of chemical synthesis routes, targeting the synthesis-planning bottleneck rather than just molecule design.
  • BMS says AI tools have already cut investigational drug manufacturing time by 20–30% (CRO Robert Plenge projects up to 50%), and credits AI with surfacing an early-clinical sickle cell disease therapy.
  • Broader AI buildout: BMS bought a latest-generation NVIDIA enterprise AI supercomputing cluster (claimed first life-sciences company to do so) and in May signed with Anthropic to give 30,000+ employees Claude reasoning/agent capabilities across R&D, clinical, manufacturing, and commercial functions.

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