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Title
Ning Wang

Ning Wang
Bioinformatics Scientist
Arcus Biosciences


Topic

Is AI truly useful on drug development? The next wave is coming

Dr. Wang will share his thoughts on the following topics:

  • 1. Current applications of AI in drug development
  • 2. How AI can be applied to precision oncology?
  • 3. His efforts on building “Google Maps” for cells

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Speakers

Ning is a bioinformatics scientist at Arcus Biosciences, where he leads bioinformatics analysis of one core immuno-oncology drug development program. During his PhD, he studied with systems biology pioneer Professor Alexander Hoffmann at UCLA, where he built up computational framework to identify synergy between signaling pathways in immune cells. Ning is a serial entrepreneur and founded two startups: i) TopApply, an online essay editing website with team size more than twenty, and ii) CellMaps, a tech driven startup that integrates multi source of data to generate predictive models for drug response.

Ning holds a B.E. in Electronic Information Engineering from University of Science and Technology of China and a PhD in Bioinformatics from UCLA.


When

February 6 (Sat), 2021

7:00 – 8:30 pm


Where

Zoom


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