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A South African team's AI for faster medicine trials just placed second in the world

In Johannesburg, Shirley Collie and her team at BioInformatiCo built Leova, an AI tool that automates the tedious work of preparing clinical-trial databases — the systems that record whether new medicines and vaccines work. It placed second in the 2026 CDISC AI Innovation Challenge, global recognition for African-built technology tackling a bottleneck in medical research everywhere.

The upbeat factortechnology built in Africa, helping the whole world test medicines faster.
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