The BioCentury Show
The BioCentury Show
BioCentury
Ep. 104 - SoftBank’s Jacqueline Fok on AI Drug Development, Metsera and the U.K. Biotech Opportunity
35 minutes Posted Mar 6, 2026 at 2:00 am.
Introduction
SoftBank Strategy
Metsera
U.K. Biotech
AI
Women in Leadership
Fok’s Catalysts
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There is a real opportunity for artificial intelligence to dramatically transform the speed, cost and efficiency of drug development over the long term, but the uptake of AI tools across biopharma has been much slower relative to the broader healthcare environment, SoftBank’s Jacqueline Fok said on The BioCentury Show. In conversation with BioCentury's Stephen Hansen, Fok, who is investment director, Life Sciences & Health Tech at SoftBank Investment Advisers, also detailed SoftBank’s inv...