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Yanyan Lan

Yanyan Lan

Professor and Deputy Dean, Institute for AI Industry Research, Tsinghua University

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AI transforms drug discovery from years to hours

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Lead researcher on DrugCLIP

For decades, finding a drug meant testing millions of compounds one by oneβ€”a process that consumed years and billions of dollars before a single candidate reached patients. On January 9, 2026, researchers at Tsinghua University published DrugCLIP in Science, demonstrating a system that screened 500 million compounds against 10,000 human proteins in under 24 hours using just eight graphics processing units. The platform is 10 million times faster than conventional molecular docking.

Updated Feb 1