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The AI in Business Podcast is for non-technical business leaders who need to find AI opportunities, align AI capabilities with strategy, and deliver ROI. Each week, Emerj Artificial Intelligence Research CEO Daniel Faggella interviews top AI executives from Fortune 500 firms and unicorn startups - to uncover trends, use-cases, and best practices for practical AI adoption. Subscribe to Emerj's weekly AI newsletter by downloading our "Beginning with AI" PDF guide here: https://emerj.com/aik

Sep 29, 2026

In biopharma R&D, AI investment has overwhelmingly targeted generating more drug candidates, even though the industry has rarely lacked for compounds worth pursuing. In this episode, Mukhtar Ahmed, Director of Project and Portfolio Strategy at Greenstone Biosciences, explores why the harder and more valuable problem is deciding which candidates deserve continued capital and attention. The conversation covers synthesizing fragmented evidence across teams, keeping human judgment and accountability in the loop, and measuring AI's impact across a portfolio rather than a single program.
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