High Agency: The Podcast for AI Builders Saving Pharma Companies Billions with AI l Patrick Leung from Faro Health
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Mar 21, 2025 Patrick Leung, CTO of Faro Health and former leader at Google, discusses revolutionizing clinical trial design with AI. He reveals how AI transforms regulatory document generation and captures insights from past trials, showcasing the importance of collaboration between clinical experts and engineers. Leung addresses the high costs of trials, challenges with traditional metrics, and the role of structured data extraction in enhancing outcomes. He also dives into AI's capabilities and the hiring challenges faced in the field.
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Eroom's Law
- Eroom's Law states that drug development costs double every nine years.
- This necessitates optimal clinical trial design to mitigate issues and control costs.
From Word Docs to SaaS
- Clinical trials were historically designed using Microsoft Word, lacking structured data management.
- Faro Health built a SaaS platform for structured trial design, offering early insights into key metrics.
LLM Challenges and Solutions
- Generating clinical-grade documents with LLMs is challenging due to discrepancies in tone and formatting.
- Faro Health uses a generator-evaluator model system with clinical expert feedback for refinement.