Regina Barzilay and Jim Collins win 2026 Pritzker Prize for AI in science research
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MIT News reports that Regina Barzilay and James Collins of MIT won the 2026 Pritzker Prize for AI in Science Research Excellence for their work on AI-enabled antibiotic discovery.
The award is given by the University of Chicago in partnership with Caltech.
The cited work includes halicin, a compound identified by a deep learning model trained on 2,500 molecules that kills drug-resistant bacteria, and abaucin, a narrow-spectrum antibiotic effective against A. baumannii.
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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. The award is given by the University of Chicago in partnership with Caltech.
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