Yanyan Lan

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AI transforms drug discovery from years to hours

Lead researcher on DrugCLIP

In January 2026, Tsinghua University researchers published DrugCLIP in Science, a system that screened 500 million drug compounds against 10,000 human proteins in under 24 hours on eight GPUs. The approach is 10 million times faster than conventional molecular docking, and the results are public in GenomeScreenDB, covering roughly half the human genome.

Updated Jun 27

Notable Quotes

"This enables cross-screening campaigns involving over 10 trillion protein–molecule pairs." — DrugCLIP research team

from AI transforms drug discovery from years to hours · Updated Jun 27

"From target to clinic, DrugCLIP is shortening the distance to 'hope.' This is where AI meets drug discovery, and the starting point of next-generation drug development."

from AI transforms drug discovery from years to hours · Updated Jun 27