AI in Drug Discovery: A Snapshot of Current Use and Prospects for the Indian Drug Discovery Space

Explore the role of AI in drug discovery in this webinar organized by the Central Drug Research Laboratory and Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative India Foundation. Listen to experts as they discuss how AI can be used in drug discovery including its history, current applications, and potential in tackling neglected tropical diseases (NTDs).

Moderator: Monalisa Chatterji, Co-founder, Sekkei Bio Pvt. Ltd.

🔸 Keynote speech
Radha Rangarajan, Director, CSIR-CDRI ‪@csir-cdriindia1074‬

🔸 AI powered drug screening
G. Narahari Sastry, Professor, Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad ‪@IITHyderabadofficial‬

🔸 AI-based software for drug discovery, development, and analysis
Shandar Ahmad, Professor and Coordinator of DBT-Bioinformatics Centre, Jawaharlal Nehru University

🔸 Challenges, hype, hope, and reality for AI in drug discovery
Gaurav Ahuja, Associate Professor, Department of Computational Biology, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology – Delhi ‪@CCBIIITDelhi‬

🔸 Introduction to Neglected Diseases and Artificial Intelligence
Charles Mowbray, Discovery Director, DNDi

The Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) is an international non-profit developing safe, effective, and affordable treatments for the most neglected patients. https://dndi.org

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