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Partnerships, research, product updates, and talks from the Human Chemical team.

Featured · Partnership · September 8, 2026

Bristol Myers Squibb partners with Human Chemical

BMS nonclinical toxicology teams use our agents for impurities, metabolite liabilities, environmental fate, and other safety questions from discovery through development.

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Product · October 5, 2026

ICH M7 case studies with Human Chemical

A new series shows how our agents support expert review of (Q)SAR mutagenicity predictions for drug impurities.

In the news · September 30, 2026

PharmaVoice on AI agents in drug research

PharmaVoice quotes Srijit Seal on AI agents in drug research, and BioPharma Dive also ran the article.

Partnership · September 2026

Beiersdorf and Human Chemical begin a research collaboration

Over six months, Beiersdorf will use our agents to build an animal-free risk assessment workflow, with a joint case study planned for publication.

Partnership · September 2026

GDIT partners with Human Chemical to support NIH ORIVA

GDIT brings our platform to federal scientists working on new approach methodologies, and we presented at GDIT's Mission Tech Innovation Showcase.

Partnership · July 2026

Human Chemical joins the HESI OASIS consortium

Our agents help consortium scientists screen data sources, find data gaps, and support weight-of-evidence work for next-generation liver safety models.

Partnership · June 2026

Huntsman works with Human Chemical on chemical safety

Huntsman uses our agents for chemistry, toxicology, and regulatory assessments, which its VP of Global Innovation expects to speed new chemicals to market.

Partnership · April 2026

Research Collaboration Agreement with the FDA Human Foods Program

We are validating our automated implementation of the FDA Expanded Decision Tree with FDA scientists, and we will publish the results together.

The agreement does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government or the FDA.

Talk · September 29 to 30, 2026

Two talks in Boston at BioTechX USA and Discovery on Target

Srijit Seal joined the BioTechX roundtable on AI for drug discovery and presented agentic AI for target safety assessment at Discovery on Target.

Product · September 2026

The full OECD QSAR Toolbox, inside Human Chemical

Run all 254 models and 70 profilers at once for multiple chemicals, with no software to install.

Research · September 2026

EUROTOX 2026 poster on the FDA Expanded Decision Tree

Our agents ran the FDA Expanded Decision Tree to rank chlorobenzene derivatives for chronic oral hazard, and the abstract is in Toxicology Letters 423.

Research · September 2, 2026

Poster at the North American Biocompatibility Summit

Srijit Seal presented multi-agent AI for rapid medical device biocompatibility assessment in Minneapolis, where Human Chemical was also a sponsor.

Talk · August 2026

Our team at ACS Fall 2026 in Chicago

Mattson Thieme, Isaac Wilks, and Srijit Seal presented agentic AI for toxicology and pesticide safety assessment at the American Chemical Society Fall meeting.

Research · August 2026

Validation protocols for machine learning in drug discovery

Srijit Seal led a cross-industry preprint on validating machine learning models for small molecule drug discovery, with co-authors from more than a dozen companies.

Research · August 7, 2026

Perspective on AI in drug discovery in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery

Srijit Seal co-authored a perspective on where AI has moved drug discovery forward, where its impact is still limited, and why.

Research · July 31, 2026

LIVER-Combine wins an NIH Complement-ARIE award

LIVER-Combine, a team that includes Srijit Seal, was one of 20 Phase 1 winners out of more than 160 teams in the NIH Common Fund's Complement-ARIE challenge on new approach methods for liver toxicity.

Talk · June 9, 2026

EUROTOX webinar on AI agents for chemical risk assessment

Srijit Seal, Principal Agentic AI Scientist at Human Chemical, showed how AI agents support chemical risk assessment. Watch the recording on YouTube.

Talk · May 8, 2026

AI agents for genotoxicity assessment at GTA 2026

We presented ICH M7 impurity case studies in the AI session of the Genetic Toxicology Association meeting, which Srijit Seal co-chaired.

Talk · January 16, 2026

NURA training on agentic AI for safer products

Mattson Thieme and Isaac Wilks demonstrated agentic AI workflows for safer products in a training hosted by ASCCT and PCRM.

In the news · 2026

Drug Target Review interviews Srijit Seal

In "From chemist to AI agent builder," Srijit Seal talks about building AI agents for drug discovery.

Upcoming talks

These are the meetings where our team speaks next.

  • Oct 26 to 29, 2026

    ASCCT 15th Annual Meeting, Durham, North Carolina

    Srijit Seal and Isaac Wilks speak in the session on evaluating AI workflows in human health risk assessment.

    ASCCT 15th Annual Meeting, Durham, North Carolina
  • Nov 4, 2026

    SETAC North America 47th Annual Meeting, Montreal

    Isaac Wilks gives a platform talk in the session on integrating AI and new approach methodologies for next-generation risk assessment.

  • Nov 15 to 17, 2026

    American College of Toxicology 47th Annual Meeting, San Antonio

    Srijit Seal co-chairs a course on agentic AI in toxicology where Mattson Thieme speaks, and Srijit Seal and Isaac Wilks speak in two symposia.

    American College of Toxicology 47th Annual Meeting, San Antonio
  • Nov 16 to 20, 2026

    OpenTox Virtual Conference 2026, online

    Srijit Seal speaks on assessing mutagenic impurities for ICH M7 with AI agents.

  • Mar 14 to 17, 2027

    Society of Toxicology 66th Annual Meeting, San Antonio

    Srijit Seal co-chairs a continuing education course with Kiara Fairman of FDA NCTR and speaks in a scientific session on AI in chemical risk assessment.

    Society of Toxicology 66th Annual Meeting, San Antonio

More talks this year

  • Sep 28 to 30, 2026

    CropLife America 2026 Annual Meeting, Dallas

    Isaac Wilks spoke on the panel "AI Advancing Discovery."

    CropLife America 2026 Annual Meeting, Dallas
  • Jun 2026

    PCRM Summer Immersion on Innovative Approaches in Science, Baltimore

    Srijit Seal spoke on AI agents in biology.

  • Apr 13, 2026

    OpenADMET webinar, online

    Srijit Seal spoke on making machine learning successful in drug discovery.

    Watch the recording ↗