60th Meetup: AI in Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Applications

Dear AI Enthusiasts,
We're absolutely thrilled to announce our 60th special meetup, and we'd like to extend a heartfelt THANK YOU to our incredible community for making this journey possible. This significant occasion is marked by an exceptional lineup of talks focusing on the groundbreaking integration of AI within pharmaceutical and biomedical applications.

Kevin Li will be discussing a groundbreaking research paper on enhancing RNA-seq data analysis with Guided Transfer Learning (GTL), focusing on the pre-training of an AI on the extensive recount3 dataset. This method significantly improves the AI's ability to tackle downstream tasks with few samples, showcasing a notable advancement in handling high-dimensional, low-sample-size omics data.
Research Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.12045

Together with Fetch, a US-based tech-enabled insurance and wellness company, Dr. Christian Debes and the team at Spryfox GmBH created a platform that can predict the medical future of dogs. At its core, they developed a machine learning algorithm that uses data from over 725,000 dogs and 16 years of claims data to predict 45 disease categories. In this session, Dr. Christian Debes will share a) the details of the algorithm, b) why descriptive AI was critical to success, and c) how a platform approach enabled the rapid spawning of new use cases.

Agenda
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18:00 – 18:15; Reception
18:15 – 18:20; A welcome note from organizers & sponsor
18:20 - 18:50; Speaker I: Kevin Li from Harvard-MIT Health Sciences & Technology Department
Title: "Using Guided Transfer Learning to Predispose AI Agent to Learn Efficiently from Small RNA-sequencing Datasets"
18:50 - 19:20; Break (food & drinks)
19:20 - 19:50; Speaker II: Dr. Christian Debes from Spryfox GmBH
Title: "Predicting health outcomes in dogs using insurance claims data"
19:50 – 20:00; Announcements (open positions, demos etc.)
20:00 – Socializing
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We come together at Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, a big thank you Melanie Büche for your valuable support!

Drinks will be available to buy at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management. Snacks will be provided by us.

Location: Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Room S0.03 (ground floor), Adickesallee 32-34, Frankfurt am Main

The hybrid event is also hosted on Zoom (credential below). So if you can't attend in person then feel free to sign-in via Zoom.

Zoom credentials:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86230357209?pwd=WnRsUHdxOXVoWkFoUlU5cHFwWlNydz09
Meeting-ID: 862 3035 7209
Kenncode: 114332

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Organizers:
Danko (https://www.linkedin.com/in/danko-nikolic/)
Gautam (https://www.linkedin.com/in/gautam-kumar-pramanik-ph-d-25ba3721/)
Frank (https://www.linkedin.com/in/frank-schaffeld-16879b3/)
Madhu (https://www.linkedin.com/in/madhuvanthi-venkatesh-a1836192/)
AI Meet-up Linkedin Page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ai-meetup-frankfurt/