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Broad Institute Machine Learning in Drug Discovery Symposium 2025
November 7 - 8:30 am - 6:00 pm
Free – $55
The fourth annual Machine Learning in Drug Discovery Symposium will highlight significant advancements in the application of machine learning techniques to drug discovery. The event will continue to bring together researchers applying machine learning to target validation, hit identification and optimization, clinical trial design, biologics, or other areas of drug discovery.
This year, there will also be an in-person workshop on Bindcraft 11/6 from 12-4pm ET, the day before the symposium (lunch 12-12:30) followed by a tour of the Broad Institute museum space from 4-5pm. If you would like to attend this in-person only workshop, be sure to purchase a ticket that specifies “W/Workshop”.
The workshop will be hosted by Lennart Nickel, Doctoral Assistant in the Laboratory of Protein Design & Immunoengineering at EPFL. Abstract for the workshop: “Protein–protein interactions are central to biological function, making their design highly relevant for therapeutic and biotechnological applications. BindCraft is a user-friendly, open-source pipeline that enables high-accuracy binder hallucination based on AlphaFold2. In this workshop, participants will learn the theoretical foundations of binder design, how to identify binding sites and interaction hotspots, prepare input structures and configuration files, and run a standard BindCraft workflow. They will also gain insights into writing and customizing loss functions to guide design objectives, along with practical ideas for the experimental validation of designed binders.”
After an in-person ticket purchase, attendees will receive an email with a link to a poster abstract submission form. Note that there are 8 chances to win a $500 prize for a poster.
Graduate students who are selected to present posters at the symposium and are traveling to the symposium from outside the Boston area, may be eligible for travel assistance. If you meet these criteria, please send an email to mlinddsymposium@broadinstitute.org for information on applying.
For questions, contact mlinddsymposium@broadinstitute.org
Target audience: Academic researchers (students, trainees, and PIs), scientists working at non-profits, AI/ML developers, scientists from biotech and pharma
