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BenevolentAI

AI-enabled knowledge graph for drug discovery and repurposing

Founded2014
HQLondon, UK
StageClinical
TickerBAI
benevolent.com
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Overview

BenevolentAI builds and applies AI to transform the way medicines are discovered and developed. The company's Benevolent Platform integrates and analyzes vast biomedical datasets using knowledge graphs and NLP to generate novel insights for drug discovery and drug repurposing. BenevolentAI gained widespread recognition for its AI-driven identification of baricitinib as a potential COVID-19 treatment, which was subsequently validated in clinical trials and received emergency authorization.

Focus areas

Target Discovery, Virtual Screening, Platform


Pipeline
BEN-2293Atopic dermatitis
Phase 2aCompleted — safe and well tolerated, efficacy endpoints not met in primary analysis
Baricitinib (repurposed)COVID-19
MarketedAI-identified repurposing, validated in trials

Technology

The Benevolent Platform integrates structured and unstructured biomedical data into a knowledge graph, using NLP and machine learning to identify novel drug targets, predict mechanisms of disease, and find drug repurposing opportunities.

Platforms & Tools
Benevolent PlatformKnowledge GraphNLP Pipeline
Notable Publications
  • Baricitinib as potential treatment for COVID-19 (The Lancet, 2020)

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