# insitro and Lilly team up to build models that predict how drug molecules behave in the body

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Date: 9 Sep 2025
About: [insitro](https://technooptimist.io/companies/insitro.md) · [ML-driven target discovery](https://technooptimist.io/biotech/insitro-platform.md)
Original source: https://www.insitro.com/news/insitro-partners-with-lilly-to-build-first-in-kind-machine-learning-models-to-advance-small-molecule-drug-discovery/

insitro will train machine-learning models on Lilly's private preclinical data to predict how small molecules are absorbed, broken down and whether they are toxic. The models will be offered to other biotechs through Lilly's TuneLab platform, which keeps each partner's data separate.

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