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Deargen-eFlask, signed a Co-development Agreement for AI-powered drug discovery

2021.07.01

Deargen announced that the joint research agreement was signed with eflask to develop new drugs using artificial intelligence. Read More

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Deargen Adds Former Hanmi Pharmaceutical “Dr. Inhwan Bae” as CDO

2021.06.02

Deargen, a company specializing in artificial intelligence (AI) drug development, announced on the 2nd that it adds Dr. Bae In-hwan, who was the research director of Hanmi Pharmaceutical’s synthetic new drug team, as the chief development officer (CDO). Read More

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Deargen, awarded the “Best AI Award” in the AI ​​Convergence Bio Health category

2021.05.24

Deargen CEO Killsoo Kang (right) received the “Best AI Award” in the AI Convergence Bio-Health category at the ‘2021 7th Korea Excellent Company Award’ hosted by Money Today held at the Korea Press Center on the 18th and met with Professor Jong-seop Lee of Dongguk University taking a commemorative photo. Read More

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Kilsoo Kang, CEO of Deargen “Development of AI-specialized new drugs… Promotion of cooperation with global pharmaceutical companies”

2021.05.24

The first company that applied “Transformer” technology grafted onto biology, had attended as a thesis predicting the treatment effect of remdesivir on coronavirus. Made collaboration with SK Chemicals and Handok… Establishing own 4D program, pipeline. Also, will increase the research rate on rare diseases through ‘bio-type open source’” Read More

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Deargen-Samsung Medical Center signed a joint research agreement using ‘AI for The Development of Alzheimer Treatment’

2021.04.30

On the July 30th, 2021, Deargen, a biotech company that develops artificial intelligence (AI) drugs, announced that there was a research cooperation agreement with Professor Seo Sang-won, head of the Center for Dementia Convergence Research Center at Samsung Seoul Hospital, to discover new Alzheimer’s treatments using AI technology. Read More

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Deargen Announces New Model of Optimizing Drug Candidate Molecules With Enhanced Performance by Nearly Double Compared to Existing Models

2021.04.09

Deargen Announces New Model of Optimizing Drug Candidate Molecules With Enhanced Performance by Nearly Double Compared to Existing Models Read More

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AI startups team up with drugmakers for drug repurposing

2021.04.02

AI startups team up with drugmakers for drug repurposing Read More

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Deargen, Nominated as TOP10 for bioanalytical service company

2021.03.25

Deargen: Laveraging AI to Accelerate New Drug Development Read More

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Deargen-Uppthera, co-development of Proteolytic drugs

2021.02.16

Deargen, a company specializing in AI new drug development, and Uptera, a new drug development company (TPD), announced on the 16th that they selected two target proteins, including anti-cancer drugs, and signed a joint research contract. Read More

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AI-based Drug Discovery, What would be the limitation?

2021.02.05

AI-based Drug Discovery, What would be the limitation? Read More

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Handok- Signed a new drug development contract using artificial intelligence of Deargen

2021.01.06

Handok- Signed a new drug development contract using artificial intelligence of Deargen Read More

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Daewoong Pharmaceutical subsidiary IN Therapeutics, now developing Hearing Loss Treatment

2020.11.17

Daewoong Pharmaceutical subsidiary IN Therapeutics, now developing Hearing Loss Treatment Read More

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[Press Release] Deargen- SK Chemicals- Joint research on new drug development using AI of Deargen

2020.11.08

Deargen- SK Chemicals- Joint research on new drug development using AI of Deargen Read More

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Deargen to attract 3 billion won for pre series A, recruited CBO Youngchul Bae

2020.11.03

Deargen to attract 3 billion won for pre series A, recruited CBO Youngchul Bae Read More

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Amyloidsolution, acquisition of AI biotech company Deargen, speeding up the development of new drug for AD

2020.11.03

Amyloidsolution, acquisition of AI biotech company Deargen, speeding up the development of new drug for AD Read More

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[Press Release] Optipharm and Deargen start developing vaccine for liver cancer treatment using AI

2020.08.25

Optipharm and Deargen, Introduced AI to find antigens (epitopes) that cause immune responses to liver cancer cells. Read More

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[Event] DEARGEN, in ‘KOREA Pharm and Bio 2020’ Fair

2020.08.13

DEARGEN participated in KOREA PHARM & BIO 2020 fair in KOREA and received a lot of interest. Especially for the case of COVID-19 treatment prediction using AI. Read More

NEWS

Five Companies Using AI to Fight Coronavirus

2020.03.23

Deep learning models predict old and new drugs that might successfully treat COVID-19. Read More

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Deargen Predicted Potential Antivirals for The Novel Coronavirus Infection using AI

2020.02.07

Deargen, predicted a drug with high potential for treatment of a new coronavirus (2019-nCoV) using the deep-learning technology based AI model MT-DTI. The work is published on the BioRxiv. Read More

TECH REVIEW

MolEQ, an artificial intelligence model that adjusts multiple property at the same time and optimizes small-molecule lead compounds

2020.02.05

Deargen Presented a self-developed small-molecule lead optimization model, MolEQ (Molecule Equalizer) at the Advancing Precision Medicine Drug Development : Incorporation of Real-World Data and Other Novel Strategies Special Conference which was held from AACR on January 9 – 12. Read More

PROJECTS

First-in Class Drug Targeting DDT2 (Code Name) Transcription Factor for Primary Cancers

2019.09.03

We introduce the process of finding key targets for primary cancers using our AI technologies such as Wx and DearTRANS. Read More

TECH REVIEW

A new state of the art drug target interaction model, Molecule Transformer based Drug Target Interaction (MT-DTI) Model.

2019.08.14

Deargen Presented a world-class drug-protein interaction prediction model, MT-DTI (Molecule Transformer Drug Target Interaction Model). This research is published in the Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR). Read More

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[Press Release] Deargen, Unveil the performance Results of a New Drug-Protein Interaction Prediction Model.

2019.08.12

Deargen Inc. Presented at MLHC 2019, “All 8 FDA-approved EGFR anticancer drugs were predicted using a database of ninety-seven million chemical compounds”. Read More

PROJECTS

Treatment of Sarcopenia using Small Molecules

2019.08.05

Sarcopenia is a new type of age-related disease that has been newly classified as a disease since October 2016. It is defined as a disease with a reduction in skeletal muscle mass as aging progresses and there are no treatments for age-related sarcopenia that have been approved by the FDA so far. In this regard, Deargen is challenging the development of treatments for sarcopenia using small molecules. Read More

PROJECTS

Undruggable to Degradable with AI

2019.08.05

PROTAC is known as a new platform for disease treatment that has been difficult to reach with existing biopharmaceuticals. Deargen is accelerating the development of drugs through PROTAC by rapidly and precisely searching for small molecules that can bind to the target protein. Read More

PROJECTS

Colorectal Cancer, MERTK, and Small molecular

2019.08.05

The study of colorectal cancer has shown that MERTK (TYRO3 / AXL / MER, TAM receptor kinase family) is an important target for cancer cell immune response evasion mechanism. Thus, Deargen is researching by focusing on small molecule inhibitors. Read More

PROJECTS

ALS (Lou Gehrig), a Challenge to Radical Cure

2019.08.05

ALS treatments that currently are being used under FDA approval have a level that relieves symptoms and slows the progression of Lou Gehrig. Deargen is challenging the development of new ALS treatments by reducing TDP-43 protein aggregation observed in more than 90% of patients with Lou Gehrig. Read More

NEWS

[Press Release] Deargen, Signed a Strategic Technology Agreement with Uppthera for Discovering PROTAC Drug Candidates using AI.

2019.08.02

Uppthera Inc. that is a domestic PROTAC-based drug development company joined hands with Deargen Inc. that is an AI-based drug development platform company. It is going to discover PROTAC drug candidates using artificial intelligence technology. On the 7th, Uppthera Inc. and Deargen Inc. recently announced that they have signed a strategic technology partnership agreement on the AI-based PROTAC drug development. Read More

TECH REVIEW

Prediction of origin of cancer by deep-learning analysis using pan-cancer transcriptome

2019.07.22

We introduce DEARGEN’s research results on the model that predicts the primary cancer sites (cancer metastasis prediction) through the gene expression profile (GEP). Read More

TECH REVIEW

CWx (Cascaded Wx): Technology for Prognosis Biomarker Discovery

2019.07.19

Deargen has announced the research results on an AI technology CWx that can discover biomarkers on disease prognosis. The research achievements has been published in the journal Frontiers in Genetics. Read More

TECH REVIEW

WX: Technology for Novel Biomarker Discovery

2019.07.19

Deargen has announced research results on an AI technology Wx that can discover novel biomarkers. Research achievements are being published in the journal of the Nature Scientific Report, and two inventions related to these have been patented. Read More

NEWS

Deargen, Selected for the TIPS Program with Genomic Data Analysis Service

2018.11.15

Deargen was selected for the TIPS program, so it will receive a total of $600,000 in R & D expenses from the operator Medytox Venture Investment. Read More

NEWS

Genomic Data Analysis Platform ‘DearTRANS’ Beta Service Launch

2018.07.06

Deargen launches a beta service of ‘DearTRANS’ that is a cloud-based genomic big data analysis platform that the world’s first artificial intelligence technologies are applied. Read More

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The Challenge to Conquer Cancer, Prognostic Prediction Analysis of Lung Cancer Using AI

2017.04.17

Deargen has been selected for the 2017 National Program for Cancer Control that is hosted by the Ministry of Health and Welfare and the National Cancer Center. Deargen will develop an integrated prognostic analysis model of lung cancer using artificial intelligence by collaboration with St. Mary’s Hospital and Dankook University. Read More

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Deargen was selected as Top Performers of the NCI-CPTAC DREAM Challenge

2017.01.20

Deargen was selected as a Top Performer of the NCI-CPTAC DREAM Proteogenomics Computational Challenges that is international Challenges for cancer proteome prediction. Details of the challenge will be published in the Nature Method. Read More

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Deargen, Won at ILSVRC 2016 (ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge)

2016.12.23

Deargen was voted in the top 10 in the world at the ‘ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge (ILSVRC) 2016’, the Image Recognition International Competition. The error rate of 3.5% in recognition (the 4% human error rate) has attained, which shows a much improved result compared to the error rate of Microsoft Research Lab that is a last year’s winner. Read More