How can AI move beyond generating text and code to help solve our biggest challenges in disease and medicine? Red Hat CTO Chris Wright is joined by Dr. Jianying Hu, IBM Fellow and Global Science Leader of AI for Health, to explore the creation of domain-specific foundation models for biology. They discuss how this new frontier of AI is accelerating drug discovery, simulating complex biological systems, and validating new research.
Key Topics:
00:00 – Intro: AI’s frontier in disease and medicine
04:39 – Building domain-specific AI foundation models for biology
07:06 – Beyond LLMs: Multimodal models for molecules (MMELON, MAMMAL)
10:19 – Innovations in tokenizing genomic data (BMFM-DNA and SNPs)
15:05 – Applying foundation models to drug discovery
16:45 – Inside the IBM & Cleveland Clinic Discovery Accelerator
20:53 – AI for personalized healthcare and patient stratification
22:55 – The critical role of open science and benchmarks in AI
Learn More:
Red Hat’s perspective on AI in healthcare: https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/ai/what-is-ai-in-healthcare
Blog: AI in the life sciences: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/ai-life-sciences-building-platform-growing-ecosystem-0
The Cleveland Clinic-IBM Discovery Accelerator: https://research.ibm.com/blog/cleveland-clinic-ibm-discovery-accelerator
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Chris Wright: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-wright-b733851/
Jianying Hu: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jianying-hu-5b5b8/
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