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What is the Isomorphic Labs Drug Design Engine?

The Isomorphic Labs Drug Design Engine, or IsoDDE, was detailed in a February 2026 technical whitepaper. It builds on AlphaFold 3 to predict how potential drug molecules interact with target proteins, including precise antibody structure predictions — going beyond protein-shape prediction into drug-interaction modeling.

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Hassabis Left DeepMind's Day-to-Day to Build the Drug Engine Beyond AlphaFold

Demis Hassabis stepped back from running DeepMind to lead Isomorphic Labs full-time, where a $2.1 billion bet is turning AlphaFold into actual drugs.

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