Cracking the code of drug delivery: Using computers and AI to make medicine work smarter

Medical Xpress January 23, 2025
University of Portsmouth

The successful and safe delivery of therapeutics relies on understanding how easily drugs can pass through biological barriers which protect cells.

Drug permeability testing is essential in determining whether medicines can reach their intended targets in the body, but scientists have long struggled to achieve accurate and reproducible data.

There are three ways to measure the success of drug delivery; in the lab, in animals and humans, and using advanced computer simulations. However, the difficult process of matching the results from these three areas of testing continues to be a problem.

Bridging the gap

New research—led by the University of Portsmouth in collaboration with the University of Southampton, King’s College London, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology—has developed a set...