Conferences and symposiums Network Medicine and AI - Shaping the Future of Biomedical Research and Healthcare
Welcome to a full day of engaging talks and discussions on Network Medicine, Systems Biology, and AI — and how these fields are shaping the future of biomedical research and healthcare.
The program features a combination of internationally renowned speakers and leading researchers from Karolinska Institutet.
Invited speakers:
Joe Loscalzo
Samuel A. Levine Professor of Medicine, Hersey Distinguished Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Physician-in-Chief Emeritus, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Albert-László Barabási
Network Science Institute and Department of Physics, Northeastern University Division of Network Medicine, Harvard University
Department of Network and Data Science, Central European University
Jan Baumbach
Professor and Director of the Institute for Computational Systems Biology, University of Hamburg
Harald Schmidt
Professor of Pharmacology, Chairman Department of Pharmacology and Personalised Medicine, Pharmacology and Personalised Medicine School for Mental Health & Neuroscience Fac. Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University
Sebastiaan Meijer
Professor of Health Care Logistics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Serving as head of department for Biomedical Engineering and Health Systems (MTH), and vice dean for the school of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health (CBH). Coordinator for EDIH Health Data Sweden.
Agenda
08:30-09:30
Registration
09:00-09:15
Welcome
09:15-09:55
Title to be confirmed
Invited speaker Joseph Loscalzo
Samuel A. Levine Professor of Medicine, Hersey Distinguished Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Physician-in-Chief Emeritus, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, US.
09:55-10:25
Data-driven patient safety: improved antibiotic stewardship and surveillance of infections
Pontus Naucler
Professor of Infectious Diseases at the Department of Medicine, Solna
10:25-10:45
Coffee break
10:45-11:25
From Network Medicine to the Foodome
Invited speaker Albert-László Barabási
Network Science Institute and Department of Physics, Northeastern University Division of Network Medicine, Harvard UniversityDepartment of Network and Data Science, Central European University.
11:25-11:50
Title to be confirmed
Åsa Wheelock
Associate Professor and Principal Researcher at the Department of Medicine, Solna
12:00-13:00
Lunch break
13:00-13:40
A reflection on evidence, expert knowledge and FAIR data in the era of AI
Invited speaker Sebastiaan Meijer
Serving as head of department for Biomedical Engineering and Health Systems (MTH), and vice dean for the school of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health (CBH).
Coordinator for EDIH Health Data Sweden.
13:40-14:05
Integrating Spatial Transcriptomics and corresponding tissue section imaging data for breast cancer research
Carsten Daub
Associate Professor and group leader for the Clinical Transcriptomics research group at the Department of Biosciences and Nutrition.
Director of the Center for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics at KI Campus Flemingsberg and Platform Scientific Director of the Genomics Platform at SciLifeLab.
14:05-14:50
Title to be confirmed
Invited speaker Harald Schmidt
Professor of Pharmacology, Chairman Department of Pharmacology and Personalised Medicine, Pharmacology and Personalised Medicine School for Mental Health & Neuroscience Fac. Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University
14:50-15:20
Coffee break
15:20-16:00
Network Medicine GPT - A foundation model for disease mechanism mining and drug repurposing
Invited speaker Jan Baumbach
Institute for Computational Systems Biology, University of Hamburg
Professor and Director of the Institute for Computational Systems Biology
16:00-16:25
Developing novel quality controls for cell therapy using AI
Anna Falk
Associate Professor and Principal Investigator at the Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet
Neural stem cells – Anna Falk group
16:25-16:45
Concluding remarks