Breadcrumb Home Machine Learning in Drug Discovery Symposium Agenda Machine Learning in Drug Discovery Symposium Overview Organizers Advisory Committee Organizing Committee Getting here Archive 2025 Overview Agenda Speakers Organizers Advisory Committee Organizing Committee Workshop 2024 Overview Speakers Organizers Advisory Comittee Organizing Committee Agenda Workshop 2023 Overview Agenda Organizers Advisory Comittee Organizing Committee 2022 Organizers Advisory Committee Organizing Committee Day 1, October 31, 2024 12:00-5:00 pm: Workshop Day 2, November 1, 2024 8:00 am-6:00 pm: 8:00 - 8:50 am Registration/breakfast 8:50 - 9:00 am Opening Remarks Relay Therapeutics Keynote 9:00 - 10:00 am How machine learning is influencing protein science and engineering Jennifer Listgarten University of California, Berkeley Morning session Chair: Sumaiya Iqbal 10:00 - 10:40 am Lessons, challenges, and opportunities from the analysis of a massive clinico-genomic dataset, comprising digital pathology images, exomes, and transcriptomes from a half-million cancer cases Nicolas Stransky Caris Life Sciences 10:40 - 11:00 am Break and poster viewing 11:00 - 11:20 am Developing and using generative AI for hit identification and optimization Atomwise Inc. University of California at San Francisco 11:20 - 11:50 am Lightning talks from selected poster presenters Bowen Jing MIT Emma Flynn University of Pittsburgh Thomas Fryer MIT Brian Chamberlain TandemAI Q&A: 10 mins 12:00 - 1:30 pm Lunch and poster viewing Afternoon session Chair: Wengong Jin 1:30 - 2:10 pm Deep learning approaches to antibiotic discovery Jim Collins Massachusetts Institute of Technology Ó³»´«Ã½ 2:10 - 2:30 pm Early stage drug design; on property prediction and molecule generation University of Edinburgh 2:30 - 2:40 pm Award and certificates Poster winners Jessica Ewald Ó³»´«Ã½ Nouraldeen Ibrahim TandemAI/Harvard Bola Khalil Leiden University and J&J Khrystofor Khokhlov MIT and Ó³»´«Ã½ 2:40 - 3:00 pm Break and poster viewing 3:00 - 3:20 pm Accelerating drug discovery with generative AI Eindhoven University of Technology Generative AI 3:20 - 3:40 pm AI for protein design (Geometric Deep Learning for Protein Understanding) Mila-Quebec AI Institute HEC Montreal 3:40 - 3:55 pm Closing remarks and acknowledgements Sumaiya Iqbal 4:00 - 6:00 pm Reception and poster session Latest news News 06.15.2026 2026 Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology awarded to pioneers of the modern cochlear implant News 06.15.2026 Scientists improve nearly every aspect of prime editing, moving it closer to treating more genetic diseases News 05.13.2026 Precision DNA editing targets root cause of severe childhood epilepsy in preclinical study News 05.01.2026 Single-molecule tracker illuminates workings of cancer-related proteins All news
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