Case Studies
Real engagements that show how we put our computational platform to work — turning our partners' toughest drug discovery questions into clear, decision-ready answers.
Computational Safety and Pharmacokinetic Assessment of Consumer Product APIs
CPI collaborated with a major consumer product company to apply advanced computational modelling, machine learning, and pharmacokinetic simulation approaches to support the safety and development assessment of two APIs. The project aligned with the companies' commitment to replace, reduce, and refine animal studies and, wherever possible, reduce the proportion of new product development involving animals.
De-Risking a Large Molecule Through Predictive ADME/Tox and Metabolism Profiling
A multi-model assessment of off-target effects, transporter liabilities, metabolic stability, and predicted metabolites — delivered as a single decision-ready report.
Custom Multi-Target Models and Patent Screening for a Competitive Assessment
Purpose-built Assay Central models across three targets — including a cross-species reconstruction — applied to a client molecule, its competitor, and thousands of patent derived analogues.
Generative Design of Selective ADORA3 Agonists for an Anticancer Target
Machine learning and generative design were used to create selective adenosine A3 receptor agonists, balancing target activity with drug-like properties, synthesizability, and patent novelty.
Understanding Off-Target Effects of Drug Candidates
A layered assessment combined BindingDB similarity searches with purpose-built target and kinase models to identify potential liabilities and guide follow-up testing.
Repurposing Approved Drugs as Specific Cytokine Inhibitors
Literature mining, machine learning, and large-scale screening were combined to prioritize known and potential inhibitors of a target cytokine.
Identifying Dual Kinase Inhibitors
Validated regression and classification models were used to screen more than 5 million commercially available molecules for dual activity across four kinases.
Determining the Kd of a Molecule Against PPT1
Microscale thermophoresis was used to test the compound's binding to recombinant human PPT1, alongside control inhibitors.
Designing New Polymers for Human Health Applications
Machine learning models trained on the client's polymer data guided the design and optimization of new polymers, with later measurements largely confirming the predictions.
Assessing Endocrine Disruption Potential of Consumer Product Ingredients
A progressive series of machine-learning assessments evaluated consumer product ingredients across estrogen, androgen, and aromatase receptor targets; the resulting work was published in separate papers.
Designing New Prodrugs with Predicted ADME/PK Properties
Client data, machine-learning models, and an approved-prodrug-fragment database supported prodrug analog design and predictions relating in-vitro stability and conversion to in-vivo pharmacokinetics.
Improving hERG and Solubility for PROTACs
Generative modeling was adapted to design PROTAC structures and propose strategies to reduce hERG IC50 while improving solubility across multiple PROTACs and a small molecule.
Predicting Off-Target Liabilities for a PROTAC Molecule
MegaPredict BindingDB, a GraphSage model trained on 475 human kinases, and models for several immunology targets were used to assess a client-provided PROTAC structure.
Developing an Algorithm to Predict Ocular Bioavailability
Literature curation, transporter and cell-based models, corneal PAMPA data, and an ensemble approach were combined to predict and rank compounds for potential ocular bioavailability.