Breadcrumb Home Machine Learning in Drug Discovery Symposium Agenda Machine Learning in Drug Discovery Symposium Overview Workshop Organizers Advisory Committee Organizing Committee Register 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 Abstracts 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: Symposium 8:00 - 8:50 am Registration/breakfast 8:50 - 9:00 am Opening Remarks Pat Walters 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 Henry van den Bedem 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 Broad Institute 2:10 - 2:30 pm Early stage drug design; on property prediction and molecule generation Antonia Mey University of Edinburgh 2:30 - 2:40 pm Award and certificates Poster winners Jessica Ewald Broad Institute Nouraldeen Ibrahim TandemAI/Harvard Bola Khalil Leiden University and J&J Khrystofor Khokhlov MIT and Broad Institute 2:40 - 3:00 pm Break and poster viewing 3:00 - 3:20 pm Accelerating drug discovery with generative AI Jakub M. Tomczak Eindhoven University of Technology Generative AI 3:20 - 3:40 pm AI for protein design (Geometric Deep Learning for Protein Understanding) Jian Tang Mila-Quebec AI Institute HEC Montreal 3:40 - 3:55 pm Closing remarks and acknowledgements Sumaiya Iqbal Eric Sigel 4:00 - 6:00 pm Reception and poster session Latest news News 07.14.2026 What All of Us means for the future of biobanks and precision medicine News 07.09.2026 Broad-led consortium receives ARPA-H award to advance gene editing for rare pediatric epilepsy News 07.08.2026 Low-cost genome sequencing approach is powering genetics research on mental illness and many other studies News 06.15.2026 2026 Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology awarded to pioneers of the modern cochlear implant All news
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