Iktos Announce Collaboration with UCB in AI for Retrosynthesis Iktos, a company specialized in Artificial Intelligence for new drug design and UCB, a global biopharma company focusing on neurology and immunology, today announced a software licensing agreement related to AI-based retrosynthesis analysis and planning tool Spaya which will be used to empower synthetic and medicinal chemistry projects for drug design and discovery of new chemical entities within UCB. Under the agreement terms, Iktos will deploy a customised version of Spaya within UCB's IT infrastructure to incorporate their reactions and starting materials data. Iktos, a leading player in AI for in silico drug design with established collaborations with many pharma companies and research organizations across the world, has recently diversified its R&D efforts into the development of an AI technology for retrosynthesis. Identifying and selecting synthetic pathways is one of the most challenging and time-consuming tasks in synthetic and medicinal chemistry. Iktos has developed AI based retrosynthesis analysis and planning tool Spaya by harnessing the power of data-driven retrosynthesis algorithm for systematic exploration and prioritisation of synthetic routes for a desired compound in minutes. Furthermore, information on commercially available starting materials and price enhances the value proposition of Spaya.