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August 28, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, News, Research, UToday, Alumni, Medicine and Life SciencesBy Shawn Salamone 

A biotech startup called Vivodyne says the AI drug-discovery industry has a data problem, and that it has built a machine to fix it.

Paul Conyngham’s dog Rosie was given months to live. Chemotherapy failed. Immunotherapy failed. So the Sydney tech entrepreneur did something unconventional — he usedChatGPT and computational genomicsto help design a personalized mRNA cancer vaccine for her specific tumor mutations. Several of Rosie’s tumors shrank.

A $762,427 National Institutes of Health grant is powering a new artificial intelligence system at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, part of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, that will help researchers examine cancer in ways once out of reach. The NVIDIA H200-powered computing platform will help scientists uncover hidden patterns in vast genomic,…