AstraZeneca iLab

AstraZeneca R&D, Gothenburg

AstraZeneca's prototype of a fully automated medicinal-chemistry laboratory in Gothenburg, integrated with its Molecular AI group to drive the design-make-test-analyse cycle: born at a 2017 DMTA hackweek whose prototype ran a full cycle in under two hours, it synthesises, purifies and tests compounds and feeds the data to AI that proposes the next ones; complete automation of the DMTA cycle has not yet been achieved and is the stated ambition.