Omar Gadir, Ph. D., Founder/CEO, Iteru Systems Stages Of Drug Discovery Fig. 1 AI shortens and reduces the cost of drug discovery Traditional drug discovery is a daunting task. It takes on average 14 years and costs about $2.6B to develop a drug. Moreover, only about 5% of experimental drugs make it to market. The Read More …

Omar Gadir, Ph. D., Founder/CEO, Iteru Systems AI Hype And Reality Artificial intelligence, Deep Learning, Machine Learning and cognitive computing are the buzzwords of the moment that generate lots of excitement. The hype around AI has led to the impression that AI is an easy solution to many problems without good understanding of the conditions Read More …

Omar Gadir, Ph. D., Founder/CEO, Iteru Systems Introduction Despite impressive innovations in pharmaceutical technologies, companies are not producing drugs any faster than before. According to PricewaterhouseCoopers: pharma’s output has flatlined for the past decade, which is indicative of poor scientific productivity and its core problem is lack of innovation in making effective new therapies for Read More …

Omar Gadir, Ph. D., Founder/CEO, Iteru Systems Pharma R&D Crisis The pharma industry has entered a severe crisis. There has been a steady decline in revenue. One of the main reasons is the growing number of generic drugs, and the costly improvements needed for new drugs to excel over the generic ones. Some think the Read More …

Omar Gadir, Ph. D., Founder/CEO, Iteru Systems Machine learning has great potential, but it is not a silver bullet. It cannot provide generalized solutions, in which one feeds any data to an algorithm and expects meaningful results. For it to be effective, it needs a good data set that can be used for training and Read More …

Omar Gadir, Ph. D., Founder/CEO, Iteru Systems Most of the new data analysis products put the burden of extracting insights from data solely on data scientists. For this reason the skill set of a data scientist, shown below, became too broad and diversified. In reality, it is a skill set of a team not an Read More …

Omar Gadir, Ph. D., Founder/CEO, Iteru Systems Iteru’s provides an end-to-end product for data analysis. It has been designed such that it can also be used with existing machine learning, analytics and virtualization products. In this blog we will focus on how Iteru helps customers to implement Machine Learning (ML). Some of the prerequisites for Read More …