Alex ZhavoronkovCEO at Insilico MedicineSpeaker
Profile
Alex Zhavoronkov, PhD, is the founder and CEO of Insilico Medicine, a leading clinical-stage biotechnology company developing next-generation generative artificial intelligence and automation platforms for drug discovery. Since 2014, he has invented critical technologies in the field of generative artificial intelligence and reinforcement learning (RL) for the generation of novel molecular structures with the desired properties and the generation of synthetic biological and patient data. Under his leadership, Insilico raised over $500 million in multiple rounds from expert biotechnology, healthcare, and financial investors, opened R&D centers in 8 countries and regions, and partnered with multiple pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and academic institutions. Since 2021, the company nominated more than 22 preclinical candidates, 10 reached clinical stage, and 1 program with a novel target and novel molecule completed Phase Iia in IPF with favorable safety, tolerability and encouraging dose-dependent efficacy.
Since 2012, he has published over 310 peer-reviewed research papers and 3 books. He serves on the advisory or editorial boards of Trends in Molecular Medicine, Aging Research Reviews, Aging, and Frontiers in Genetics, and founded and co-chairs the Annual Aging Research and Drug Discovery (12th Annual in 2024). He is the adjunct professor of artificial intelligence at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging.
Agenda Sessions
Longevity: Stirring up investment and healthcare innovation for a more productive, aging world
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