Healx -based start-up Balderton Capital , founded by the co-inventor of Viagra , Dr David Brown , has raised $10m in a series A funding round led by HealNet . It's said to contain over a billion unique data points that connect diseases, patients and drugs. Healx has developed a platform called Healx , containing one billion unique data points which uses machine learning to identify specific existing drugs that can be tweaked to treat rare diseases. David Brown dubbed the current drug discovery process as "broken, slow and high failure".
Healx -based start-up Balderton Capital , founded by the co-inventor of Viagra , Dr David Brown , has raised $10m in a series A funding round led by HealNet . Healx has developed a platform called Healx , containing one billion unique data points which uses machine learning to identify specific existing drugs that can be tweaked to treat rare diseases. David Brown dubbed the current drug discovery process as "broken, slow and high failure".