{"id":19878,"date":"2026-05-02T09:25:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T09:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/bytedances-drug-unit-presents-ai-designed-therapies-at-global-conferences\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T09:25:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T09:25:39","slug":"bytedances-drug-unit-presents-ai-designed-therapies-at-global-conferences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/bytedances-drug-unit-presents-ai-designed-therapies-at-global-conferences\/","title":{"rendered":"ByteDance\u2019s drug unit presents AI-designed therapies at global conferences"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\" readability=\"10.519417475728\"><span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">ByteDance<\/span>, the Chinese owner of TikTok, is pushing deeper into artificial intelligence with Anew Labs, a drug-discovery unit that has begun presenting its AI-designed therapies at international conferences.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The unit &ndash; also known as Anew Therapeutics or ByteDance AI Drug Discovery &ndash; operates from Shanghai, Singapore and San Jose, California.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Its official website listed 36 core members, as well as big names on its &ldquo;scientific advisory board&rdquo;: Liu Yongjun, former president of Innovent Biologics, Ji Ma, a former principal scientist at biotech company Amgen, and Hua Zou, scientific director of protein chemistry at Takeda California.<\/p>\n<div data-qa=\"InlineAdSlot-Container\" class=\"css-zl1inp e11v3ui14\">\n<div class=\"e11v3ui10 e11v3ui13 css-1umbx1w e1flwkbl0\" data-qa=\"AdSlot-Container\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In mid-April, Chris Li, head of biology, presented one of Anew Labs&rsquo; four pipeline drug candidates at Immunology2026 in Boston, organised by the American Association of Immunologists. The treatment was designed by generative AI for certain autoimmune diseases.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">She Yuli, head of data, joined the International Conference on Learning Representations, in late April in Rio de Janeiro, according to She&rsquo;s LinkedIn post. The conference was a gathering of professionals dedicated to the advancement of deep learning.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-inline-container e1a5rv550 css-1llrc1m e1yqhwb40\" data-qa=\"Component-renderMap-StyledDiv\">\n<div class=\"image-inline caption e1fvabeq0 css-19sk4h4 ea9pn0s0\" data-qa=\"Component-Container\">\n<figure class=\"image-inline caption ea9pn0s1 css-1qeofuq e1gf69pb0\" data-qa=\"ArticleImage-ArticleImageContainer\">\n<div data-qa=\"ArticleImage-handleRenderImage-ImageContainer\" class=\"css-bjn8wh e1gf69pb3\"><\/div><figcaption data-qa=\"ArticleImage-DescriptionContainer\" class=\"css-1bj5zno e1gf69pb1\">ByteDance&rsquo;s Anew Labs lists 36 core members, as well as big names on its scientific advisory board. Photo: Shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Yu Haoyu, head of computational chemistry, said on LinkedIn that he would be in Barcelona, Spain, for the 2026 Free Energy Workshop, which is for AI chemistry and kicks off on May 4. He planned to present AnewSampling, a framework to reproduce molecular dynamics at the all-atom level.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p><sub>ByteDance&rsquo;s drug unit presents AI-designed therapies at global conferences<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ByteDance, the Chinese owner of TikTok, is pushing deeper into artificial intelligence with Anew Labs, a drug-discovery unit that has begun presenting its AI-designed therapies at international conferences. The unit &ndash; also known as Anew Therapeutics or ByteDance AI Drug Discovery &ndash; operates from Shanghai, Singapore and San Jose, California. Its official website listed 36&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/bytedances-drug-unit-presents-ai-designed-therapies-at-global-conferences\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;ByteDance\u2019s drug unit presents AI-designed therapies at global conferences&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19879,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}