UCT Wins $1.6m From Google to Map How African Bodies Process Medicines

The University of Cape Town has won $1.6 million (about R26.4 million) from Google.org to build an AI platform mapping the genetic variants that determine how African patients metabolise medicines. UCT is one of 17 organisations selected worldwide for the Google.org Impact Challenge: AI for Science, from more than 3,000 applicants across 30 countries. The gap it addresses “Medicines do not work the same way in everyone, yet the evidence that guides prescribing in Africa