AI for Drug Discovery w Pat Walters and Patrick Riley | The MaML Podcast

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🦙 EP. INFO 🦙
Pat Walters is the Chief Data Officer and Patrick Riley is the senior VP of AI from Relay Therapeutics in Cambridge, MA. In this episode we discuss Relay's innovative approach to drug discovery, and how new developments in AI and computational modeling have accelerated this process.

🦙 TIMESTAMPS 🦙
1:05 How did you come to the intersection of healthcare and artificial intelligence?

6:48 What does Relay Therapeutics do?

9:17 How does Relay Therapeutics use AI to target proteins of interest?

13:00 Further explanation of the small molecule exploration process.

28:00 How do we know small molecules interact with target proteins in their native state?

33:20 How Relay Therapeutics improves their data sets.

36:00 How did machine learning change the process of small molecule exploration?

41:05 What do you think the future of drug development will look like over the next 10-20 years?

44:05 What is a protein?

51:10 Favorite topics in science

53:20 What advice would you give someone finishing graduate school?

🦙 CREDITS 🦙
Interviewee: Pat Walters and Patrick Riley
Interviewers: David Wu + Madeline Ahern
Video Production: Saurin Kantesaria
Audio Production: Aaron Schumacher
Artwork + Logos: Saurin Kantesaria
Intro Music: Windows96 - Caligula