We are pleased to invite you to a Biomedical Data Science Seminar Series (BDS3) event featuring two visiting researchers from Seoul, Korea.
The event will take place on Thursday, 25 July, from 10:00 to 11:00am, in the Wolfson Centre Seminar Room 1 (Hammersmith Hospital campus), and will also be available online via Teams.
Schedule:
10:00 – 10:30 AM
“AI-driven Drug Discovery in the LLM Era”
Speaker: Prof Jaewoo Kang (Korea University)
This talk will present recent advancements in biomedical domain-specific language models developed by the DMIS Lab, including BioBERT and Meerkat. Prof Kang will also discuss the real-world application of these technologies in AI-based drug discovery at AIGEN Sciences.
10:30 – 11:00 AM
“Predicting Food-Drug Interactions Guided by CYP450 Interactions”
Speaker: Dr Mogan Gim (Hankuk University)
Dr Gim will explore how cheminformatics is applied in developing deep learning models for drug discovery and precision nutrition, focusing on the role of CYP450 isoenzymes in predicting potential food-drug interactions.
We look forward to seeing many of you there in person, we will also broadcast on Teams for those on other campuses and those unable to travel to Hammersmith.
Please feel free to forward this to others you feel may be interested in attending.
Best,
Joram and Antoine
Section of Bioinformatics, Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction
About the Speakers:
Prof Jaewoo Kang, PhD
Full Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, College of Informatics, Korea University, Seoul, Korea. Prof Kang leads the Data Mining and Information Systems (DMIS) lab, where his research focuses on biomedical text mining, AI-driven drug discovery, and large-scale data analytics. He is the developer of influential biomedical NLP resources such as BioBERT, and has published extensively in top-tier venues in AI, bioinformatics, and healthcare informatics.
Dr Mogan Gim, PhD
Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, Korea. His research lies at the intersection of cheminformatics, bioinformatics, and food informatics, with a special interest in digital health and precision nutrition. Dr Gim’s work involves developing predictive models for drug-food interactions and leveraging AI to address challenges in personalised medicine.