AI and the Lab of the Future

The laboratory of the future does not look at all like what we think of today—a fluorescent-lit room bound by four walls and a fume hood. The laboratory of the future will be a network of physical and virtual spaces, spanning the entire lifecycle of therapeutic products. Robot-guided molecular and cellular biology labs test predictions of new chemicals generated in the cloud. Biomarkers derived from organs on a chip and federated global clinical trials yield patient-precise clinician reports. Wrist watches and smartphones monitor compliance and collect troves of data over time. In fact, all of these technologies are here today, but the laboratory of the future will learn to connect them into constellations of discovery.