MedTech UCL is proud to present the online UCL AI in Medicine Series: a two-week series of events bringing together some of the greatest minds in digital health. With speakers from Google AI, Microsoft, Harvard, MIT, UCL, University of Cambridge and others, this is an unmissable opportunity to hear from, and network with, the people at the forefront of medical AI research.

The series will consist of talks, discussions on the greater implications of AI on various parts of healthcare, an entrepreneurship panel and a virtual networking fair. We look forward to seeing you there.

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Schedule (London time)

Jan-25, 16:00 Professor Mihaela van der Schaar (University of Cambridge): "Why medicine is creating exciting new frontiers for machine learning"

Interested in learning more how machine learning can be used to revolutionise healthcare? Then come to the first talk of MedTech UCL's AI in Medicine series! We are pleased to welcome Professor Mihaela van der Schaar, the John Humphrey Plummer Professor at the University of Cambridge, where she is director of the Cambridge Centre for AI in Medicine. Her lab ranks among the world's most recognized research groups in the domain of machine learning for healthcare.

Professor van der Schaar is a Turing Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute in London, leading the effort on data science and machine learning for personalised medicine and has been identified by Nesta as the most-cited female AI researcher in the UK.

Jan-26, 18:00 Dr. Ben Kemp (LabGenius): "Drug Discovery using Synthetic Biology, Robotics and Machine Learning"

Drug Discovery using Synthetic Biology, Robotics and Machine Learning: Ever wanted to learn more about how AI and machine learning can be used for drug discovery? Then come along to MedTech UCL's second talk in the AI in Medicine Series! Dr. Ben Kemp, Principal Scientist at LabGenius, will be talking about the work the company does!

Dr. Kemp leads the wet lab team to generate data for the next generation of protein drugs. LabGenius explores protein fitness landscapes for drug discovery using machine learning, synthetic biology and robotics.

Jan-27, 18:00: Dr. Pearse Keane (UCL/Moorfields Hospital): "Transforming healthcare with artificial intelligence - lessons from ophthalmology"

The third talk of the AI in Medicine Series! We are pleased to welcome back Dr. Pearse Keane, NIHR Clinician Scientist, based at the Institute of Ophthalmology (IoO), and an honorary consultant ophthalmologist at Moorfields Eye Hospital.

Dr. Keane initiated long-term collaboration between Moorfields Eye Hospital and Google DeepMind with the objective of developing artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms for the earlier detection and treatment of retinal disease, such as age-related macular degeneration and has been a leader in the applying AI to ophthalmology.

In 2020, Dr. Keane was announced as a UK Research and Innovation's Future Leader Fellow for work involving the development and application of AI in the NHS.

Jan-28, 18:00: Tom Dyer (behold.ai): "Building Healthcare AI for the Real World"

For the fourth event of the AI in Medicine Series, we are delighted to welcome back Tom Dyer, Senior Machine Learning Engineer at behold.ai!

Tom's research work focuses on leveraging AI to alleviate stresses on global health systems. He also played a pivotal role in the devopment of algorithms for COVID-19 diagnosis, which behold.ai used when deploying the technology in India.

Jan-30, 18:00: Entrepreneurship Panel

Interested in learning more about entrepreneurship in the MedTech sphere and the latest advances in patient treatment and monitoring? Want to find out more about AI is being here? Then come along to our entrepreneurship panel on January 30th at 18:00 GMT to learn more from the founders of some of the hottest new MedTech start-ups!

Introducing our panellists:

1. Dr. Krishan Ramdoo is the CEO and founder of TympaHealth. TympaHealth uses machine learning to perform hearing health checks to help doctors diagnose and treat patients.

2. Dr. Emilia Molimpakis is the CEO and co-founder of thymia, a company that uses specially-designed video games to perform faster mental health assessments.

3. Dr. Elin Haf Davies is the CEO and founder of Aparito, a company that uses mobile applications and wearable devices to improve the lives of people suffering from rare diseases.

Feb-1, 18:00: Andreas Cleve (Corti.ai): "Using Corti’s AI to save lives during emergency calls"

MedTech UCL is starting off the second week of the AI in Medicine Series with a bang! Andreas Cleve, CEO and co-founder of Corti.ai, will be coming in to speak about the work that his company does.

Corti was founded in 2016 to solve problems in the emergency medical space. The company developed Audia, a digital assistant that was trained on emergency calls and patient consultations, to identify and reduce out-of-hospital cardiac arrests.

Andreas Cleve was named one of the Innovators Under 35 Europe 2018 by MIT Technology Review and is the Chairman of the Board of Nordic.ai.

Feb-2, 18:00: Professor Neil Sebire (GOSH DRIVE): "Moving advanced analytics and AI into clinical practice: principles and barriers"

For this week's second talk in MedTech UCL's AI in Medicine Series, we are pleased to welcome Professor Neil Sebire, Chief Research Information Officer and DRIVE Managing Director, at GOSH DRIVE (Great Ormond Street Hospital's Digital Research, Informatics and Virtual Environments Unit)

His current research and academic interests are around the impact of digital technologies on health care and related research, in particular in relation to how routine current and future health data can be used to improve child health.

The GOSH DRIVE Unit demonstrates how a digital research environment for health care, with collaboration between clinical professionals, academia, computer scientists and industry partners, can work together for common health care benefit. By combining a wealth of data with cutting-edge AI techniques, the goal is to enhance health services across the NHS.

Feb-3, 19:00: Professor Manolis Kellis (MIT): "From genomics to therapeutics: Single-cell dissection of human disease circuitry"

Interested in hearing from one of the world's foremost experts in computational biology? Then come along to this talk by Professor Manolis Kellis, head of the MIT Computational Biology group and Principal Investigator in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) at MIT. Professor Kellis was named as one of Technology Review's Top 35 Innovators Under 35 and is a co-leader of the NIH Roadmap Epigenomics Project to map the human epigenome. His main work focusses on understanding the effects of genetic variations on human disease, but he also does research on obesity, diabetes, Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, and cancer.

Feb-4, 18:00: Dr. Thomas Matthew Ward (Harvard University): "Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision in Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Surgery"

As part of MedTech UCL's AI in Medicine Series and in collaboration with UCL Surgical Society, we are pleased to welcome Dr. Thomas Matthew Ward, Surgical AI & Innovation Fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University. Dr. Ward will talk about his work as part of the Surgical Artificial Intelligence and Innovation Laboratory, a multidisciplinary group of surgeons, engineers and data scientists. His research focuses on using AI to automatically analyse and interpret operations in real-time.

Feb-4, 20:00: Vivek Natarajan (Google AI): "Challenges of deploying medical imaging AI at scale"

Interested in how AI can be used to improve patient wellbeing? Then come along to a fantastic talk by Vivek Natarajan, AI & Health Researcher at Google AI (formerly Facebook AI). Vivek works on translating AI technologies to create positive clinical impact and health outcomes. He has also focussed on applying these technologies to dermatology and has developed a deep learning system for differential diagnosis of skin diseases.

Feb-5, 18:00: Siddhartha Chaturvedi (Microsoft): "Predicting Epidemics with Mosquitoes and Robots"

"Predicting Epidemics with Mosquitoes and Robots" - MedTech UCL is concluding the AI in Medicine Series with not one, but two fantastic talks! The first talk is by Siddhartha Chaturvedi from Microsoft Premonition! Siddhartha works in Responsible AI and Health Innovation at Microsoft and is part of the Microsoft Premonition team whose goal is to detect pathogens early to reduce future epidemics. The main focus of work is to use robotic smart traps to monitor the transmission of mosquitoes and cloud-scale metagenomic data sets.

Feb-5, 20:00: Dr. Eric Topol (Scripps Research Institute): "Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again"

"Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again": The final talk of the AI in Medicine Series! We are delighted to welcome Dr. Eric Topol, Founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute. Dr. Topol was commissioned by UK goverment to lead planning for the NHS's future workforce, integrating genomics, digital medicine, and artificial intelligence. His talk will focus on the future of AI in healthcare and it is transforming medical research.

As a cardiologist, Dr. Topol is one of the top 10 most cited researchers in Medicine, Selected for 12 “Rock Stars of Science” by GQ and author of 3 bestselling books on the future of medicine.