Where: Bldg 20, Auditorium
Description
A keynote lecture by Ajay Royyuru, Vice President of Healthcare & Life Sciences Research at IBM.
EVENT DESCRIPTION
Biology and medicine are transformed into an information science, enabling rapid translation from discovery to practice. This talk will present the opportunities and insights from the accumulation of electronic medical records, medical insurance claims, digital phenotype, including; imaging, medical literature, and omics data. Such data, coupled with advances in artificial intelligence techniques and detailed mechanistic models of biochemical and physiological phenomena, are yielding novel personalized insights across healthcare and life sciences. In this lecture, Ajay Royyuru -Healthcare & Life Sciences research lead at IBM - will discuss examples from recent work in oncology, cardiology, and neuroscience.
Introduction by Prof. Khaled Salama, co-Chair of WEP 2020.
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Ajay Royyuru
Ajay Royyuru leads Healthcare & Life Sciences research at IBM. His team is actively pursuing high-quality science, developing novel technologies and achieving translational insights across this industry, including areas of cancer, cardiac, neurological, mental health, immune system, and infectious diseases. Working with institutions around the world, he is engaged in research that will advance personalized, information-based medicine. His scientific interests and active projects include; genomics, protein science, systems biology, computational neuroscience, health informatics, miniaturizing for medical devices, and nano-biotechnology. His work has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, BBC, Forbes, Scientific American, Nature Medicine, and Nature news articles.
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