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For Healthcare & Life Sciences, this highlights the accelerating trend of AI contributing to more targeted and effective treatments, especially for conditions where traditional research methods have faced challenges due to small patient populations. This approval reinforces the strategic importance of integrating AI and machine learning into research and development pipelines within the pharmaceutical industry, allowing for more personalized treatment strategies and expanding drug portfolios.
Pharmaceutical companies can leverage AI to identify potential drug candidates for other rare diseases, predict treatment efficacy based on patient profiles, and optimize clinical trial designs to accelerate the approval process. AI also can be used in post-market drug monitoring and prediction of adverse effects.