WEHI Special Bioinformatics & Computational Biology Seminar hosted by Drs Givanna Putri, James Fu and Mengbo Li

Michael P. Menden

Associate Professor in Biochemistry & Pharmacology

School of Biomedical Sciences

University of Melbourne

A Vision of Translational Computational Pharmacogenomics

 

Davis Auditorium

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Including Q&A session

The talk focuses on the development of artificial intelligence and biostatistical frameworks applied to biomedical data, to retrieve insights in the aetiology of complex diseases and identify patient stratifications. For this, we explore deep molecular characterised biomedical datasets, environmental factors, and tailor our models depending on disease specific knowledge gained through literature and data driven analyses, thus empowering the next generation of precision medicine. In this talk, I will exemplify this with computational analysis frameworks utilising generative AI and digital twins for drug high-throughput screens and patient data.

A/Prof Michael P. Menden is an Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne, Department of Biochemistry and Pharmacology since August 2023. He is jointly appointed to a Principal Investigator position at Helmholtz Munich, Institute of Computational Biology, Germany, a role which he has held since February 2019. A/Prof Menden became an ERC Starting Grant Laureate in 2020, and was awarded the Rising Star in Drug Discovery Award by the University of Cardiff in 2022. Previously, Dr. Menden worked as Senior Scientist in Oncology Bioinformatics, AstraZeneca, UK. He was a PhD student and postdoctoral fellow at EMBL-EBI, UK. His PhD was awarded in Computational Biology by the University of Cambridge, UK in 2016.

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