Dr. Gustavo Stolovitzky: How Artificial Intelligence Enables Precision Medicine

PODCAST – 1 hr 7 min. (EN)

In this episode, Dr. Cuesta chats with Dr. Gustavo Stolovitzky, a thought leader in the realm of computational biology and a pioneer in the realm of precision medicine. Gustavo was the director of IBM’s translational systems biology and nanobiotechnology program, an adjunct professor at both the Icahn School of Medicine and Columbia University, and is currently the Chief Scientific Officer at Sema4, a data-driven precision medicine company.

We discuss:

What is precision medicine: the historical and conceptual origins as well as the direction the field is moving today
How the synergy of artificial intelligence and advancements in synthetic biology are enabling precision medicine
Obstacles in artificial intelligence and how they are impeding the growth of precision medicine
Using deep learning in medicine: supervised learning, explainable AI, and overfitting algorithms
The DREAM challenges and how crowdsourcing solutions in computational biology can help solve issues in precision medicine
How will AI fit into the clinical landscape
Sema4 and how data is translated from concept to clinical practice
Intellectual property and how to protect your algorithms in precision medicine
What is the best path to break into precision medicine.