Meet the man who invented Viagra: He's fighting rare diseases with ...

Meet the co-founder of Viagra, Dr David Brown, who has teamed up with Dr Tim Guiliams to create an AI powered system to tackle rare diseases and find treatments for 100 rare diseases by 2025.

Dr. David Brown: How Viagra opened the doors to machine learning ...

Dr. Brown has since parlayed his extensive medical experience and head for business as co-founder of the antibody company Crescendo Biologics and co-founder and chair of the board of Healx, a fast-growing Cambridge University spinout company which uses machine learning to find treatments for children with rare diseases.

About - Healx

Dr David Brown Co-Founder and Chairman. David has over 40 years' experience in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry, covering both research and senior executive roles. ... Pfizer he was named co-inventor on the patent for Viagra, and for 8 years he led the team that invented and developed Viagra through to proof of clinical efficacy ...

Viagra Inventor Raises $10m To Find Medicines For Rare ... - Forbes

Dr David Brown, the co-inventor of Viagra, has raised $10 million for his latest healthcare startup, Healx, which is using artificial intelligence to speed up the development of medicines that can ...

The inventor of Viagra just raised $56m for his AI drug startup

The startup's approach has been shaped by cofounder Dr David Brown's experience in discovering Viagra. ... "Viagra is a classic example of highly successful repurposing of a safe drug. This is the approach we are now scaling at Healx, repurposing approved drugs (and unique combinations of them) and matching them to rare diseases," said Dr ...

Rise of Viagra How a miner's honesty turned a side effect into pharma ...

But the blockbuster story of Viagra could have ended differently were it not for the frankness of the Welsh miners who took part in a clinical trial just before the drug was due to be scrapped, according to Viagra's co-inventor. ... Dr David Brown said that the drug's unexpected sideeffect was almost overlooked.

Why Viagra is still a taboo - even though men everywhere use it

How Viagra gave men everywhere a helping hand - even if they won't admit it ... As the drug's co-inventor, Dr David Brown knows the story better than anybody. He was the young chemist based at ...

Artificial Intelligence Startup Healx Gets $10 Million to Find Cures ...

One of Healx's founders co-invented Viagra. Healx was founded in 2014 by Dr. Tim Guilliams (Bio-Chemical Engineer and founder of the Cambridge Rare Disease Network), Dr. David Brown (co-inventor of Viagra and ex-Global Head of Drug Discovery at Roche) and Dr. Andreas Bender (lecturer and researcher at Cambridge University's Centre for ...

Meet the Drug Hunters: the scientists determined to cure rare diseases

The drug would become known under the brand name, Viagra, which has a strong claim to being the most famous drug of all time. Total sales for Viagra since that summer's day in Aberystwyth amount ...