The Life Sciences Revolution
Take a deep dive to the forefront of scientific breakthroughs, entrepreneurial happenings, and disruptive medical technologies with Dr. Armando Cuesta and Alex Wise. The LSR podcast brings you experts in biotechnology, company management, and venture capital to shed light on the medical revolutions shaping our lives. Special thanks to Jank Setup for providing their song, "In Motion," for the intro and outro to the podcast!The Life Sciences Revolution Podcast is sponsored by Korion Life Sciences
The Life Sciences Revolution
Dr. Gustavo Stolovitzky: How Artificial Intelligence Enables Precision Medicine
In this episode, Dr. Cuesta chats with Dr. Gustavo Stolovitzky, a thought leader in the realm of computational biology and a pioneer in the realm of precision medicine. Gustavo was the director of IBM's translational systems biology and nanobiotechnology program, an adjunct professor at both the Icahn School of Medicine and Columbia University, and is currently the Chief Scientific Officer at Sema4, a data-driven precision medicine company.
We discuss:
- What is precision medicine: the historical and conceptual origins as well as the direction the field is moving today
- How the synergy of artificial intelligence and advancements in synthetic biology are enabling precision medicine
- Obstacles in artificial intelligence and how they are impeding the growth of precision medicine
- Using deep learning in medicine: supervised learning, explainable AI, and overfitting algorithms
- The DREAM challenges and how crowdsourcing solutions in computational biology can help solve issues in precision medicine
- How will AI fit into the clinical landscape
- Sema4 and how data is translated from concept to clinical practice
- Intellectual property and how to protect your algorithms in precision medicine
- What is the best path to break into precision medicine