2025 Midwest AI for Drug Discovery and Development Workshop
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
John Crerar Library 390
April 4, 2025
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
John Crerar Library 390
April 4, 2025
Workshop Schedule
All times listed are in Central Daylight Time (CDT, UTC-5, Chicago Local Time).| Time | Event |
| 8:15 - 9:00 AM | Breakfast (for registered attendees) |
| 9:00 - 9:10 AM | Opening Remarks |
| 9:10 - 10:00 AM | Roundtable Discussion |
| 10:00 - 10:30 AM | Invited Talk: Rick Stevens (University of Chicago & Argonne National Lab) Challenges for AI Driven Drug Discovery |
| 10:30 - 11:00 AM | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 - 11:30 AM | Invited Talk 2: Jimeng Sun (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Next-Generation Clinical Research: From Digital Twins to Large Language Model Automation |
| 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM | Invited Talk 3: Paul Carlier (University of Illinois Chicago) Ligand-based optimization of irresistible antimalarials |
| 12:00 - 1:00 PM | Lunch (for registered attendees) |
| 1:00 - 2:10 PM | Poster Session |
| 2:10 - 2:40 PM | Invited Talk 4: Abhishek Pandey (Abbvie) Data Driven Drug Discovery: AI based Drug Discovery |
| 2:40 - 2:50 PM | Contributed Talks 1: Xuefeng Liu (University of Chicago) Entropy-Reinforced Planning with Large Language Model for Drug Discovery |
| 2:50 - 3:00PM | Contributed Talks 2: David Minh (Illinois Institute of Technology) Machine learning maps intracellular pocket conformations to multidimensional signaling efficacy |
| 3:00 - 3:10 PM | Contributed Talks 3: Rahul Goyal (AbbVie Inc) Machine Learning Based Product Screening Tool to Accelerate Medical Counter Measure Development |
| 3:10 - 3:20 PM | Contributed Talks 4: Xiang Zhang (University of Minnesota - Twin Cities) Genome-wide chemical-genetic interaction and genetic interaction profiles in human cells |
| 3:20 - 3:30 PM | Contributed Talks 5: Archit Vasan (Argonne National Laboratory) Integrating AI and Molecular Simulations to Advance Therapeutic Discovery |
| 3:30 - 3:50 PM | Coffee Break |
| 3:50 - 4:20 PM | Invited Talk 5: Hening Lin (University of Chicago) SIRT2 inhibitors in cancer and inflammation |
| 4:20 - 4:50 PM | Invited Talk 6: Aly Khan (University of Chicago) AI-Powered Immunology: Accelerating Target Discovery and Therapeutic Design |
| 4:50 - 5:00 PM | Concluding Remarks |