Accelerating Drug Discovery with AI and Network Science
When:
Friday, Mar 01, 2024 1:00p -
1:45p
Friday, Mar 01, 2024 1:00p -
1:45p
Where:
Online event
Admission:
FREE
Hosted by:
Categories:
Business & Professional, Innovation, Tech, University
Event website:
https://bit.ly/3T8b7c5
Join us online on Friday, March 1, 2024 at 1pm EDT for an exciting AI + Life Sciences webinar titled, “Accelerating Drug Discovery with AI and Network Science” with Sam Scarpino, our Director of AI + Life Sciences and guest Giulia Menichetti, a faculty member at Harvard Medical School and an affiliated faculty member at the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University.
Sam and Giulia will discuss:
- What network science is and how it is advancing AI applications in medicine and biology
- What is needed to realize the potential of AI in diagnosing and treating complex diseases
- What we should expect in AI and life sciences in 2024
- How our Institute advances diagnostics, drug discovery, and wet-lab-in-the-loop
About our Speakers:
Sam Scarpino
Samuel V. Scarpino, PhD, is the Director of AI + Life Sciences at the Institute for Experiential AI at Northeastern University and a Professor of the Practice in Health and Computer Sciences. He holds appointments in the Institute for Experiential AI and the Network Science, Global Resilience, and Roux Institutes.
Prior to joining Northeastern in November 2022, Scarpino was the Vice President of Pathogen Surveillance at The Rockefeller Foundation and Chief Strategy Officer at Dharma Platform (a social impact, technology startup). Outside of these roles, he has over 10 years of experience translating research into decision support and data science/AI tools across diverse sectors from public health and clinical medicine to real estate and energy.
Giulia Menichetti
Dr. Menichetti is a statistical and computational physicist specializing in Network Science. She leads the Foodome project, which aims to track the complete chemical complexity of the food we consume and develop quantitative tools to reveal the mechanistic impact of these chemicals on our health. Her lab at the Channing Division of Network Medicine (Brigham and Women’s Hospital) and Harvard Medical School innovates methods to predict the bioactivity of food small molecules and designs reproducible food quality metrics and public health interventions powered by AI.
In 2022, Dr. Menichetti was selected by the Rockefeller Foundation and Acumen Academy for the inaugural cohort of the Food Systems Fellowship, a one-year program supporting 20 global leaders tackling the complexity of food systems. Most recently, she received the 2023 Junior Scientific Award from the International Complex Systems Society for "initiating the complexity science of food with wide-reaching implications for health research."
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