Robin Brouwer

IT lead
AstraZeneca
Robin Brouwer

Talk

Better, faster, and cheaper drug discovery with machine learning

Abstract

AstraZeneca is finding new and innovative ways to use AI to help solve some of the biggest challenges facing the pharmaceutical industry today. To become better, faster, and cheaper in drug discovery and development, we believe in our AI approaches at AstraZeneca to transform R&D. Please join our session to get an overview of some of the real use-cases where AI is having a genuine impact across the R&D value chain:

  • Machine learning to predict compound properties to minimize the number of compounds made and tested
  • Methods to identify and improve the safety profile of new drugs as well as reduce the costs and time to bring these to the clinic
  • AI approaches for discovering patients responding better to treatment
  • Designing Molecules using Recurrent Neural Networks and Reinforcement Learning

Bio

Robin joined AstraZeneca 15 years ago working in IT across R&D incl. late-stage development areas Clinical and Regulatory, and the past 5 years within Early Science. Robin has held various positions incl. developer, architect, project manager, and, now, IT lead for global labs, early science, and Gothenburg at AstraZeneca.

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