Schedule

The event will be held on Nov 16th.

Agenda (Timezone EST):

8:00am – 8:45 am Registration and Coffee


8:55 am - 9:30 am – Overview of the Agenda and Welcome Remarks

8:55am - 9am Ilknur Icke, PhD. Director of Applied Machine Learning, Bayer

9am - 9:15am Emmanuelle di Tomaso, PhD Global Head, Translational Sciences Oncology, Bayer

9:15am - 9:30am Sai Jasti, SVP, Head of Data Science and AI, Bayer


9:30 am - 11:00am Session 1. Understanding health and disease for Precision Health and Precision Medicine

Moderator: Farzaneh Nasirian, PhD. Applied Machine Learning, Bayer

9:30am - 10:00 am Virginia Savova, PhD. Senior Director, Global Head of Single-cell Biology, Sanofi

From Single-cell Biology To Cell-Centric Drug Discovery

10am - 10:30am Matthew Bernstein, PhD. Principal Scientist, Immunitas Therapeutics

Annotating cell types and cell states in single-cell omics data: a challenging problem

10:30am - 11am Shantanu Singh, Ph.D. Senior Group Leader at the Broad Institute

Finding disease phenotypes and candidate therapeutics using images: Cell Painting


Coffee Break and Networking - refreshments will be served (30 mins)


11:30am- 1:00pm Session 2. Designing Therapeutics for Precision Medicine

Moderator: Matteo Aldeghi, PhD. Director of Machine Learning Research, Bayer

11:30 am - 12pm Elizabeth Wood, PhD. President and Chief Executive Officer, JURA Bio, Inc

Variational Synthesis Atlas of Human T Cell Repertoires (VISTA-T): Generative Library Design Enables Large Scale Discovery of Therapeutically Relevant TCRs

12pm - 12:30pm Sherlock Hu, PhD. CIO, GV20 Therapeutics

AI for Target Identification and Antibody Discovery

12:30pm - 1pm Michal Warchol, PhD. Executive Vice President, Ardigen

Multimodal approach to phenotype-guided virtual screening of small molecules


1:00pm – 2:00pm Lunch Break - Poster and Networking Session at BRIC 6th floor (lunch will be provided)

Participating companies: Ardigen, Leal Health, Florence Health, Superluminal Medicines


2:00pm - 3:30pm Session 3. Conducting Better Clinical Trials for Precision Medicine

Moderator: Sara Rahmati, PhD. Applied Machine Learning, Bayer

2pm - 2:30pm Gustavo Arango-Argoty, Ph.D. Associate Director, Applied Data Science, AstraZeneca

Pretrained transformers applied to clinical studies improve predictions of treatment efficacy and associated biomarkers

2:30pm - 3pm James Lindsay, PhD. Director of Software Engineering, Department of Data Science, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Leveraging artificial intelligence predictions of treatment change to time out reach for enrollment in precision medicine clinical trials

3pm - 3:30pm Charles Fisher, PhD. CEO, Unlearn.AI

Enabling Efficient Clinical Trials with Generative Models for Clinical Timeseries


Coffee Break and Networking - refreshments will be provided (30 mins)


4pm - 4:20pm Fireside Chat: Fiona Mack, Head of Bayer Co.Lab and Dylan Morris, Managing Director, Insight Partners

Emerging Trends from a Venture Capitalist Perspective

4:20pm - 4:25pm Closing Remarks

Ming Tommy Tang, PhD. Director of Computational Biology, Immunitas Therapeutics

4:25pm End of workshop