Regina Barzilay and Jim Collins win 2026 Pritzker Prize for AI in science
AIRegina Barzilay and James Collins of MIT won the 2026 Pritzker Prize for AI in Science Research Excellence for AI-enabled antibiotic discovery. Their work includes halicin, identified by a deep learning model trained on 2,500 molecules and shown to kill drug-resistant bacteria, and abaucin, a narrow-spectrum antibiotic effective against A. baumannii.
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Original title: Regina Barzilay and Jim Collins win Pritzker Prize for AI and Science Research Excellence for work in AI-enabled antibiotic discovery