Lab Rats series: A Bengaluru startup’s bid to drug the undruggable
Backed by an ₹86 crore government grant and ₹70 crore Series A funding, Peptris Technologies is leveraging generative AI to build a preclinical pipeline targeting rare diseases and previously undruggable proteins.
Backed by an ₹86 crore government grant and ₹70 crore Series A funding, Peptris Technologies is leveraging generative AI to build a preclinical pipeline targeting rare diseases and previously undruggable proteins.
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Mumbai: In the mid-2010s, a scientist and a software engineer met through their children, frequently running into each other outside birthday parties and school events. Conversations fixated on what was new in their professional worlds: drug discovery for Shridhar Narayanan, former head of research and development (R&D) at AstraZeneca’s Bengaluru lab, and machine learning for software engineer Venkatasubramanian Narayanan, known better as just Venkat.
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