AI in Drug Development

John E  Lincoln
Instructor: John E  Lincoln
Date: Tuesday July 1, 2025
Time:

08:00 AM PDT | 11:00 AM EDT

Duration: 90 Minutes
Webinar Id: 24179

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Overview:

The US FDA has announced steps toward a new regulatory policy and framework specifically tailored to promote the development of safe and effective drugs using advanced artificial intelligence / machine learning algorithms by the regulated industry.

Artificial intelligence algorithms are software that can learn from and act on data. These types of algorithms are already being used on a limited but growing scale by industry to aid in screening for diseases and to provide treatment recommendations.

The recent FDA drug development policy statements indicate these technologies are viewed as a harbinger of progress that the FDA expects to seein the five basic ements of drug development:

  • Discovery and Development
  • Preclinical Research
  • Clinical Research
  • FDA Review
  • FDA Post-Marketing safety monitoring

AI production software validation has some new requirements as well.

The Agency plans to apply their current authorities in new ways to keep up with the rapid pace of innovation and ensure the safety of these drugs. This seminar will evaluate these stated FDA policy shifts as it applies to drug discovery and development.

Why you should Attend:

Generative AI is a type of artificial intelligence (AI) that attempts to match or surpass human thinking abilities across a wide range of large data tasks. The FDA is adapting to the use of AI in medical products, and has recently issued policy statements on an advanced form of AI in pharma development, looking to the future. One of these is AIRIS.

AIRIS operates without pre-set commands or training data, solving problems and creating rules as it navigates the virtual world. In artificial intelligence (AI), creating adaptable systems that learn independently is a key goal, and AIRIS (Autonomous Intelligent Reinforcement Inferred Symbolism) is an AI system designed to do just that. It is enabled to adapt and solve problems in new situations without needing explicit programming for each task.

While FDA specifically mentions AIRIS, their statements indicatetheir thinking in general on AI in drug discovery and develoment, as well as a williness to work with their regulated industry partners in expanding use of generative AI into all appropriate areas of pharmaceutical development, production, and post market monitoring.

Areas Covered in the Session:

  • Generative AI
  • AIRIS example
  • The Drug Discovery / Development Process - 5 Key Steps and AI
  • The US FDA Commissioner's Comments
  • Discovery and Development
  • Preclinical Research
  • Clinical Research
  • FDA Review
  • Post-market Safety Monitoring / Reporting
  • Patient Focused Development

Who Will Benefit:

  • Senior Management in Pharmaceuticals
  • QA / RA
  • AI Software Programming, Documentation, Testing Teams
  • R&D
  • Engineering
  • Production
  • Operations
  • Marketing
  • Consultants

Speaker Profile
John E. Lincoln is a medical device and regulatory affairs consultant. He has helped companies to implement or modify their GMP systems and procedures, product risk management, U.S. FDA responses. In addition, he has successfully designed, written and run all types of process, equipment and software qualifications/validations, which have passed FDA audit or submission scrutiny, and described in peer-reviewed technical articles, and workshops, world wide. John has also managed pilot production, regulatory affairs, product development/design control, 510(k) submissions, risk management per ISO 14971, and projects; with over 28 years of experience in the FDA-regulated medical products industry - working with start-ups to Fortune 100 companies, including Abbott Laboratories, Hospira, Tyco/Mallinckrodt. He is a graduate of UCLA.

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