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November 17th, 2020

— Welcome and Opening Remarks

11:00-11:05am
Marinka Zitnik
11:05-11:25am
Marinka Zitnik and Jure Leskovec

— Models, Inference, Algorithms (Part 1)

11:25-12:00pm
Djork-Arné Clevert
Proteochemometric Modeling for
COVID-19 Drug Repurposing
12:00-12:35pm
Albert-László Barabási
Network Medicine: From Cellular Networks
to Drug Repurposing for COVID-19

— Scaling Up, Keynote Presentation

12:35-1:25pm
Nevan Krogan
Studying SARS-CoV-2 Through An
International Collaboration
1:25-2:00pm
Vijay Pande
AI is Industrializing Discovery: Speeding
Drugs to Market in a Pandemic

— From Laboratory to Patient Care, Molecular Mechanisms, Health Policy and Management

2:30-3:05pm
Ziad Obermeyer
Finding the Right Labels
3:05-3:40pm
Sergio Baranzini
Using Knowledge Networks for Drug Repurposing
3:40-4:15pm
Kevin Grimes
Challenges for Academics in Advancing Repurposed
Candidates to the Clinic
4:15-4:50pm
Qi Liu
Connecting Hydroxychloroquine in Vitro Antiviral
Activity to in Vivo Concentration For
Prediction of Antiviral Effects

November 18th, 2020

— Welcome

10:30-10:35am
Jure Leskovec

— Molecule Generation, Synthetic Biology, Keynote Presentation

10:35-11:10am
Regina Barzilay
Modeling Drug Combinations based on
Molecular Structures and Biological Targets
11:10-12:00pm
James Collins
Harnessing Synthetic Biology And
Deep Learning to Fight Pandemics

— Models, Inference, Algorithms (Part 2)

12:00-12:35pm
Michael Bronstein
Geometric Deep Learning for
Functional Protein Design
12:35-1:10pm
Jan Baumbach
From Covid-19 Systems Medicine
To Privacy-preserving AI
1:10-1:45pm
Andreas Bender
Using Chemical and Biological Data
To Repurpose Drugs? Approaches,
Opportunities and Pitfalls

— Systems Biology, Target Identification, Safety and Toxicity, Virology

1:45-2:00pm
Kexin Huang, Tianfan
Therapeutics Data Commons
Fu, Wenhao Gao,
Yue Zhao
2:00-2:35pm
Joseph Loscalzo
Network Strategies for Drug Repurposing
for Future Pandemics
2:35-3:10pm
Anand Chokkalingam
Leveraging Real-World Data During a Pandemic to
Speed Development of Remdesivir for COVID-19
3:10-3:45pm
Robert Gentleman
Unraveling Host Genetics for Target Discovery
3:45-4:20pm
Bino John
Acceleration of Drug Development: Applications
and Opportunities for AI and Data Science in Pharma

— Keynote Presentation

4:20-5:10pm
Yoshua Bengio
Exploring the Space of Drug Combinations
using Active Learning
All times are in the Eastern Standard Time zone.
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