The Opportunities and Challenges of Integrating AI in Biotech - Nucleate Canada

Nucleate Canada's inaugural Edmonton event as part of the 2024 Upper Bound AI Conference in Edmonton, Alberta. The event consisted of a panel discussion about the opportunities and challenges of integrating AI in biotech, and made for an evening filled with engaging and inspiring conversations surrounded by key opinion leaders, industry partners, and enthusiasts!
Who are we?
​Nucleate is a global nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering tomorrow's biotech leaders by educating today's academic trainees. With a network spanning 28 chapters and encompassing over 150 academic institutions worldwide, Nucleate is supported by a passionate cohort of over 1000 student leaders who are dedicated to identifying and nurturing future biotech trailblazers.
Timestamps:
0:00 - Opening comments
3:35 - Panel introductions
5:40 - Areas where AI has lived up to its hype, and conversely areas where it has fallen short
13:30 - The limitations in using AI to make significant progress in biology
19:33 - The bottlenecks in collecting data, and potential solutions
22:35 - How companies can ensure making profits within an open-source community
25:55 - Data and big pharma
29:32 - How necessary high-throughput, high-quality data is
35:32 - Is in-house generation of high-quality data the future?
40:00 - How useful synthetic data is
41:10 - How important the regulatory process is in the pipeline
50:45 - Variability in the data
54:30 - The value of continual learning and niche data in today's environment
1:00:07 - AI's impact on rare diseases
1:04:03 - Panel conclusion
1:05:40 - Closing comments
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Great last comment to try to use AI to help rare disease drug discovery ❤