Speaker Profile
Director, Business Development, Envisagenics
Biography
Kevin leads the business development efforts to form research collaboration partnerships with biopharma companies. Over the years, Kevin has worked in small-to-midsize biotechs and CROs gathering a wide spectrum of experience in pre- and post-IND development. With his previous role at Integrium, he has helped kickstart an investment arm leading equity and bridge financing investments with micro-cap and small-cap public biopharma companies.
Talk
AI-driven Drug Discovery Platform for Splicing Driven Diseases
Introduction to Envisagenics’ SpliceCore drug discovery platform and its application of RNA-splicing analytics to identify new therapeutic targets. The impact of transparent machine learning algorithms for downstream experimental validations. Case study – translating a novel splicing derived target identified by SpliceCore into the wet lab.
Session Abstract – PMWC 2022 Silicon Valley
- Hope or Hype? The Role of ML in Drug Discovery and Development (PANEL)
Session Chair: Ansuman Satpathy, Stanford University
- Marcel Hop, Genentech
- Mark Jacobstein, Immunai
- Stacie Calad-Thomson, BioSymetrics
- Andrea deSouza, Eli Lilly and Company - Advancing Research and Drug Discovery with UK Biobank
Session Chair: Asha Collins, DNAnexus
- Lucy Burkitt-Gray, UK Biobank
- Lisa McFerrin, AWS - Machine Learning for Novel Target Discovery: Unique Techniques Meet Unique Data
Session Chair: Alex Morgan, Khosla Ventures
- Lindsay Edwards, Relation Therapeutics
- Kristen Fortney, BioAge
- Quin Wills, Ochre Bio
- Joseph Rodgers, Fountain Therapeutics
- Calum MacRae, Atman Health - AI/ML in Clinical Trial Design, Patient Selection and Prediction of Outcomes (PANEL)
Session Chair: Peter Lipsky, Ampel Bio
- Nasim Eftekhari, City of Hope
- Mika Newton, xCures, Inc.
- William Oh, Sema4
- Treating Genetics as Data: Computable, Structured Results for Precision Medicine
- Peter DeVault, Epic - DeepConsensus: Sequence Transformers for Sequence Correction
- Andrew Carroll, Google - AI in Small Molecule Design and Screening (PANEL)
Session Chair: Petrina Kamya, Insilico Medicine
- Jim Edwards, Janssen
- Tommaso Mansi, Johnson & Johnson
- Martin Emanuel Bittner, Arctoris - PMWC 2022 Showcase
- Kevin Cho, Envisagenics, Inc.
- Poojitha Ojamies, Novartis
- Steve Harrison, Engine Biosciences
