2026 Northeast AI for Drug Discovery and Development Workshop

Workshop Schedule

All times listed are in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT, UTC-4, New York Local Time).

Time	Event
8:30 - 9:30 AM	Arrival and Check-in
9:30 - 10:00 AM	Opening Remarks
10:00 - 10:30 AM	Invited Talk 1: Nathan C. Frey From Benchmarks to the Bench
10:30 - 11:00 AM	Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30 AM	Invited Talk 2: Tommaso Biancalani
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM	Invited Talk 3: Li Shen Multimodal AI for Drug Discovery: Integrating Brain Imaging, Genomics, and Clinical Data in Alzheimer’s Disease
12:00 - 1:00 PM	Lunch (for registered attendees)
1:00 - 2:10 PM	Scientific Exchange
2:10 - 2:40 PM	Invited Talk 4: Martin Renqiang Min AI for Precision Medicine: From Generative Models to Auto Research
2:40 - 2:50 PM	Contributed Talk 1 PROPHET: Phylogenetically Robust Antiviral Peptide Design Against Heterogeneous Evolutionary Trajectories
2:50 - 3:00 PM	Contributed Talk 2
3:00 - 3:10 PM	Contributed Talk 3 Reinforcement Learning for siRNA Guide Strand Design
3:10 - 3:20 PM	Contributed Talk 4 Towards Mechanistic Evaluation of ESM-2 650M for Zero-Shot Mutation Effect Prediction
3:20 - 3:30 PM	Contributed Talk 5 AutoScientists: Self-Organizing Agent Teams for Long-Running Scientific Experimentation
3:30 - 3:50 PM	Coffee Break
3:50 - 4:20 PM	Invited Talk 5: Sarath Chandar Rethinking Chemical Language Model Pretraining
4:20 - 4:50 PM	Invited Talk 6: Pedro O. Pinheiro Structure-conditioned Molecule Generation with Molecular Density Fields
4:50 - 5:00 PM	Concluding Remarks