--- title: Miles Congreve: The 100 Most Influential People in AI 2025 description: Find out why Miles Congreve made TIME’s list of the most influential people in artificial intelligence. canonical: https://time.com/collections/time100-ai-2025/7305794/miles-congreve/ article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2025-08-26T20:02:53.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T11:54:40.556Z article:section: Business og:title: TIME100 AI 2025: Miles Congreve og:description: Find out why Miles Congreve made TIME’s list of the most influential people in artificial intelligence og:url: https://time.com/collections/time100-ai-2025/7305794/miles-congreve/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt88cf6bbab8532999/6998c925f1b082594d6f19d6/Miles-Congreve.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME100 AI 2025: Miles Congreve og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: TIME100 AI 2025: Miles Congreve twitter:description: Find out why Miles Congreve made TIME’s list of the most influential people in artificial intelligence twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt88cf6bbab8532999/6998c925f1b082594d6f19d6/Miles-Congreve.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Aug 26, 2025 # Miles Congreve > Sponsored content. 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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account. Chief scientific officer, Isomorphic Labs by [Annalisa Merelli](https://time.com/author/annalisa-merelli/) ## Annalisa Merelli  Photo-Illustration by TIME (Courtesy Photo) When Miles Congreve began working in pharmaceutical discovery three decades ago, designing a new drug molecule was a feat of craftsmanship. It would take him up to a year to design the first structure, trying to guess how a molecule would bind to a protein target, then more years refining it. Today, access to those insights takes mere seconds at Isomorphic Labs, the AI drug discovery company where he is chief scientific officer. A Google company founded out of DeepMind, Isomorphic Labs recently announced $600 million in funding, with the ambitious goal of using AI to help cure all diseases. In 2024, the company announced partnerships with both Eli Lilly and Novartis. It is yet to bring any AI-designed drugs to market, but is gearing up for its first human trials. Congreve is the rare scientist to see more than one of the drugs he worked on reach commercialization; in his career, he helped design 25 clinically-evaluated drugs and co-invented a treatment for breast cancers. But AI has somewhat changed the horizon of what he thinks possible. “We're very much at the beginning of this revolution in life sciences,” he tells TIME. He believes a general model of human biology is within the reach of computer discovery. After that, medicine will be about prevention of serious diseases, rather than treatment. “I like to think about a world, 20 years from now, where we won’t be treating people \[for disease\]. We’ll be predicting that someone has the potential to have a disease,” he says, “And people will be treated 10 or 15 years before they actually get \[it\].” **Correction, Aug. 28** _The original version of this story misstated the timeline for Isomorphic beginning human trials. 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