Evotec forms Oxford initiative to spawn AI-enabled startups

Evotec has formed a pact to help the University of Oxford’s data-driven drug discovery projects move out of academia. Working with clinical artificial intelligence company Sensyne Health, Evotec will support researchers at the university as they generate data to show the commercial viability of their projects. The collaboration, dubbed LAB10x, is a different spin on the alliance Evotec entered into with the university and affiliated organizations to bridge the gap between academic research and industry in 2016. This time around, the goal is to leverage Oxford’s position at the forefront of academic research into medical, engineering and computer science to spawn AI-enabled startups.