A story of artificial intelligence and drug development during the pandemic

Speaker
Justin Stebbing
Event date
Event time
17:00 - 18:00
Venue
Trinity College
Broad Street
Oxford
OX1 3BH
Venue details

de Jager Auditorium

Event type
Lectures and seminars
Event cost
£10 / £5 students
Disabled access?
Yes
Booking required
Required

Justin Stebbing, Editor-in-Chief of Oncogene, one of the world’s leading cancer journals, is Visiting Professor of Oncology at Imperial College London, Professor of Biomedical Sciences, ARU, Cambridge, and an alumnus of Trinity.

Specialising in new therapies for cancer, Professor Stebbing has published over 650 peer-reviewed papers as well as regularly presenting new data on optimal cancer therapies.

In this talk he will describe how during the pandemic, a computer programme led to studies at breakneck speed in early 2020 which produced a treatment that was US Government Food & Drug Administration approved nine months later.

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