Andreas Bender, PhD
Developing new life science data analysis methods (AI/ML/data science) and their application in drug discovery, chemical biology, and in silico drug safety
Upcoming and past conference talks:

23rd ICSB Meeting
Oxford, MS, 7-10 April 2025

Oncode Accelerator Summit 2024
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 28 November 2024

Oxford Scientific/Artificial Intelligence Society
Oxford, UK, 14 November 2024

2024 MGMS Virtual Lecture Tour
Virtual Event, 11 November 2024

Digital Discovery Webinar: Artificial Intelligence and Data in Drug Discovery and Development
Virtual Event, 30 October 2024

ICUB Seminar, University of Bucharest
Bucharest, Romania, 3 October 2024

17th International Meeting of the European Calcium Society
Cambridge, UK, 1-4 September 2024

7th Machine Learning and AI in Bio(Chemical) Engineering Conference
Cambridge, UK, 2/3 July 2024

Beilstein Bozen Symposium 2024
Ruedesheim, Germany, 4-6 June 2024

SLAS Europe 2024
Barcelona, Spain, 27-29 May 2024

ELRIG Advances in Cell-Based Screening in Drug Discovery
Gothenburg, Sweden, 15/16 May 2024

Colloquium at Darmstadt University
Darmstadt, Germany, 14 May 2024

RoBioInfo 2024
Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 11/12 April 2024

Bayer Fellows Meeting
Monheim, Germany, 10/11 April 2024

What Drug Hunters Need to Know About Computational Chemistry
London, UK, 3/4 October 2023

National Pharmacy Congress
Cluj-Napoca, 27-29 September 2023

SciLifeLab AI Seminar Series
Virtual Event, 8 September 2023

IUPAC CHAINS World Chemistry Congress 2023
The Hague, The Netherlands, 20-25 August 2023

AI for Drug Discovery Summer Symposium
London, UK 28 June 2023

IRB Barcelona Biomed Seminar
Barcelona, Spain, 16 June 2023

2nd Borderless Biomedicine Meeting
Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 25/26 May 2023

Cluj Innovation Days 2023
Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 24-26 May 2023

Digitalising Drug Discovery - Financial Times Panel Discussion
Virtual Event, 25 April 2023

18th International Conference on Genomics (ICG-18)
China/Singapore/Hybrid Event, 12-28 April 2023

Machine Learning and AI in Biological Science, Drug Discovery and Medicine
London, UK, 1 March 2023

8th International BAU Drug Design Congress
Istanbul, Turkey, 15-17 December 2022

BTS In silico/Mechanistic and Discovery Toxicology speciality sections’ joint workshop: hands-on modelling of safety data for non-experts
Virtual Event, 29 November 2022

ELLIS Critical Assessment of Molecular Machine Learning Workshop - slides
Virtual Event, 28 November 2022

11th Drug Discovery Strategic Summit
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 10/11 November 2022

BioTechX 2022
Basel, Switzerland, 8-10 November 2022

Towards Personalised Medicine Through Advances in Genomics and Epigenomics
Cluj, Romania, 21 October 2022

Discngine Meetup 2022
Virtual Event, 20 October 2022

Biodata and AI in Drug Discovery
Virtual Event, 19 October 2022

Bio-IT World Conference & Expo Europe 2022
Berlin, Germany, 18/19 October 2022

NIH Clustering and Classification Workshop - slides
Online Event, 3/4 October 2022

11th McKinsey Roundtable on Digital in Life Sciences
London/Munich/Online Event, 30 September 2022

Molecule2Medicine Webinar "AI in Drug Discovery: Successes, Opportunities and Pitfalls"
Online Event, 27 September 2022

XVIth International Congress of Toxicology - slides
Maastricht, The Netherlands, 18-21 September 2022

1st International Conference on Drug Repurposing (RExPO)
Maastricht, The Netherlands, 2/3 September 2022

Cambridge ELLIS Machine Learning Summer School 2022
Cambridge, UK, 11-15 July 2022

9th International Postgraduate Conference on Pharmaceutical Sciences (iPoPS) 2022
Online Event, 21-24 June 2022

OECI Oncology Days 2022
Valencia, Spain, 15-17 June 2022

Proventa Medicinal Chemistry Strategy Meeting 2022
London, 9 June 2022

14th Annual Drug Discovery to Development Innovation Forum
Berlin, Germany, 24/25 May 2022

Chemical Computing Group UGM 2022 - slides (PDF, 2MB)
Amsterdam, Netherlands, 17-20 May 2022

MedChemINterACTION Meeting 2022
Berlin, Germany, 10-13 May 2022

Drug Discovery Chemistry 2022
Hybrid Event (San Diego, CA/Online), 18-21 April 2022

1st Cambridge AI in Drug Discovery Conference - slides (PDF, 2MB)
Online Event, 26 February 2022

Iranian Conference on Bioinformatics
Hybrid Event (Kish Island, Iran/Online), 22-24 February 2022

5th Internatinal Conference on Recent Trends in Bioengineering (ICRTB 2022)
Hybrid Event (Pune, India/Online), 12/13 February 2022

Workshop on Rational Drug Discovery
Online Event, 18/19 October 2021

Eurotox 2021
Online Event, 26 September - 1 October 2021

Royan International Twin Congress - slides (PDF, 1MB)
Online Event, 1-5 September 2021

EFMC-ISCM 2021 - slides (PDF, 2MB)
Online Event, 29 August - 2 September 2021

IUPAC 2021 World Chemistry Leadership Meeting: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Future of Chemistry - slides (PDF, 1MB)
Online Event, 13-20 August 2021

Webinar: Strategies for Creating AI Ready Chemical Data
Online Event, 29 June 2021

CCDC Discovery Science Day - recording (on YouTube)
Online Event, 9/10 June 2021

7th European Chemical Biology Symposium (ECBS) and European Chemical Society (EuChemS) Meeting
Online Event, 26-28 May 2021

Britsh Toxicology Society (BTS) Annual Meeting 2021 - slides (PDF, 1MB)
Online Event, 12-15 April 2021

AI in Drug Discovery 2021 - slides (PDF, 2MB)
Online Event, 16/17 March 2021

SOT 2021 - slides (PDF, 2MB)
Online Event, 14-18 March 2021

AI in Drug Discovery Conference - slides (PDF, 1.5MB)
Online Event, 27 February 2021

National Symposium on Drug Repurposing for Future Pandemics
Online Event, 17/18 November 2020

Second Annual Conference on the State of Science on Development and Use of NAMs for Chemical Safety Testing
Online Event, 19/20 October 2020

ICML Expo Panel: Machine Learning for Drug Discovery in the era of SARS-CoV-2
Online Event, 12 July 2020

Artificial Intelligence in Drug Discovery Symposium
Bergen, Norway, 3/4 December 2019

AI Pharma Korea Conference 2019
Seoul, Korea, 7 November 2019

48th DMDG Open Meeting 2019
Cambridge, UK, 18-20 September 2019

CCG UGM 2019
Oxford, UK, 21-24 May 2019

High Content Imaging and Data Science for Virtual Screening and Drug Discovery
Bled, Slovenia, 13-17 May 2019

British Toxicology Society Annual Congress
Cambridge, UK, 15-17 April 2019

Connectivity Map and L1000 data: Applications and New Developments
Hinxton, UK, 10/11 April 2019

Post-Genomic Strategies in Drug Discovery
Utrecht, The Netherlands, 22 March 2019

ELRIG Networking Event
Cambridge, UK, 20 March 2019

Theoretical Foundations of Machine Learning (TFML)
Krakow, Poland, 11-15 February 2019

Pharmacology 2018
London, UK, 18-20 December 2018

Designing Safer Medicines III
London, UK, 15 October 2018

Machine Learning in Drug Discovery and Precision Medicine (EBI Industry Workshop)
Hinxton, UK, 18/19 September 2018

EFMC-ISMC 2018
Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2-6 September 2018

ACS National Meeting Fall 2018
Boston, USA, 19-23 August 2018

eCheminfo Europe 2018
Milano, Italy, 16-20 July 2018

6th Annual Meeting of the GP-TCM Association
London, UK, 4-6 July 2018

Computer-Aided Drug Design Symposium and Workshop
Dublin, Ireland, 3/4 May 2018

International Helmholtz Drug Discovery Conference 2018
Munich, Germany, 26/27 April 2018

UK QSAR Spring Meeting 2018
Cardiff, United Kingdom, 11/12 April 2018

International Synergy Forum 2018
Bonn, Germany, 9/10 March 2018

Cambridge New Therapeutics Forum (CamNTF)
Cambridge, UK, 3 October 2017

3rd AstraZeneca-MedImmune-CRUK Cambridge Centre Symposium 2017
Cambridge, UK, 25/26 September 2017

Interdisciplinary Signaling Workshop
Visegrad, Hungary, 17-21 July 2017

6th Symposium on Conformal and Probabilistic Prediction with Applications (COPA) 2017
Stockholm, Sweden, 14-16 June 2017

Computational Techniques in Drug Discovery
Accra, Ghana, 11-13 April 2017

SLAS 2017
Washington DC, USA, 4-8 February 2017

MI Bio 2016
Cambridge, UK, 9 November 2016

International Conference on Computation for Science and Technology (ICCST) / & Computer-Aided Drug Design (CADD) 2016
Langkawi, Malaysia, 30 October - 4 November 2016

5th International Conference on the Modernization of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Chengdu, China, 24-25 October 2016

Discovery Informatics & Analytics Summit 2016
London, UK, 19-20 October 2016

ChemBioSphere
Cambridge, UK, 22 September 2016

CCG UGM Europe 2016
Vienna, Austria, 17-20 May 2016

The Controlling Cancer Summit 2016
London, UK, 17-19 May 2016

High-Content and Phenotypic Screening
Cambridge, UK, 10/11 May 2016

IWBBIO 2016
Granada, Spain, 20-22 April 2016

SLAS Compound Management in Industry and Academia
Berlin, Germany, 12-13 April 2016

Keystone Symposium "Modern Phenotypic Drug Discovery: Defining the Path Forward"
Big Sky, Montana, USA, 2-6 April 2016

Current Trends in Drug Discovery Research (CTDDR) 2016
Lucknow, India, 25-28 February 2016

International Conference on Pharmaceutical Bioinformatics (ICPB 2016)
Pattaya, Thailand, 24-26 January 2016

Big Data Leaders Forum
London, UK, 19-21 January 2016

103rd Indian Science Congress
Mysore, India, 3-7 January 2016

Autumn School of Cheminformatics in Tokyo 2015
Tokyo, Japan, 25/26 November 2015

New Trends of Computational Chemistry for Industry Applications (XRQTC)
Barcelona, Spain, 1-2 October 2015

Summer School "In Silico Drug Discovery"
Warsaw, Poland, 24-26 June 2015

Big Data in Medicine 2015
Cambridge, UK, 19 June 2015

Pharma Exabyte 2015
Berlin, Germany, 27/28 May 2015

9th Drug Design & Medicinal Chemistry Conference
Berlin, Germany, 5-6 May 2015

British Toxicological Society Annual Congress 2015
Birmingham, UK, 19-22 April 2015

Advances and Progress in Drug Design 2015
London, UK, 17-18 February 2015

High-Throughput Cell Biology: From Screening to Applications
Paris, France, 17/18 November 2014

BrazMedChem 2014
Sao Carlos, Brazil, 9-13 November 2014

German Pharmaceutical Society (DPhG) Annual Meeting
Frankfurt, Germany, 23-26 September 2014

Drug Design 2014
Oxford, UK, 23-25 September 2014

Eurotox 2014
Edinburgh, UK, 7-10 September 2014

Royan International Twin Congress on Reproductive Biomedicine and Stem Cells Biology & Technology
Teheran, Iran, 3-5 September 2014

EuroQSAR 2014
St. Petersburg, Russia, 31 August - 4 September 2014

Biodiversity and Medicines Symposium
London, UK, 26 June 2014

7th Global Discovery & Development Innovation Forum
London, UK, 13/14 May 2014

Europe Drug Discovery Summit
Berlin, Germany, 7/8 May 2014

Young Chemists 2014
London, UK, 4 April 2014

Informa Drug Discovery Innovations
Berlin, Germany, 18/19 March 2014

SLAS (Society for Laboratory Automation & Screening) 2014
San Diego, California/US, 18-22 January 2014

Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery Programme 2014
Mysore, India, 9/10 January 2014

Computational Tools for Chemical Biology, Phenotypic Screening and Target De-convolution
Hinxton, UK, 22 November 2013

15th Cefic-LRI Annual Workshop 2013
Brussels, Belgium, 21 November 2013

iPoPS 2013
Shah Alam, Malaysia, 4/5 September 2013

eSSENCE International Workshop on Macromolecular Structure and Dynamics
Uppsala, Sweden, 3-5 June 2013

Informa Drug Discovery Innovations
Berlin, Germany, 19/20 March 2013

Advances and Progress in Drug Design
London, UK, 18-19 February 2013

UiTM Academic Conference 2013
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 29-30 January 2013

German Cheminformatics Conference 2012
Goslar, Germany, 11-13 November 2012

MipTec 2012
Basle, Switzerland, 24-27 September 2012

Symposium on Computational Chemical Biology
Manchester, UK, 13 September 2012

22nd International Symposium on Medicinal Chemistry (EFMC-ISMC 2012)
Berlin, Germany, 2-6 September 2012

2012 Sino-American Symposium on Clinical and Translational Medicine (SAS-CTM)
Shanghai, China, 27-29 June 2012

SocBIN Bioinformatics 2012
Stockholm, Sweden, 11-14 June 2012

Good Practice in Traditional Chinese Medicine (GP-TCM)
Leiden, The Netherlands, 15-18 April 2012

RIKEN Chemical Biology Symposium
Wako, Japan, 20-21 October 2011

47th International Conference on Medicinal Chemistry (Plenary Lecture)
Lyon, France, 6-8 July 2011

Frontiers in Medicinal Chemistry 2011
Saarbruecken, Germany, 20-23 March 2011

Global Discovery & Development Innovation Forum 2011
London, U. K., 7-8 March 2011

World Drug Discovery & Development Summit 2010
Copenhagen, Denmark, 26-27 October 2010

XIXth LACDR School on Medicinal Chemistry
Oegstgeest, The Netherlands, 19-22 October 2010

UK QSAR Meeting Fall 2010
Cambridge, UK, 12 October 2010

FIGON Dutch Medicines Days 2010
Lunteren, The Netherlands, 4-6 October 2010

21st International Symposium on Medicinal Chemistry
Brussels, Belgium, 5-9 September 2010

Second Strasbourg Summer School on Chemoinformatics
Obernai, France, 20-24 June 2010

Bio-IT World 2010
Boston/MA, 20-22 April 2010

British Toxicology Society Annual Meeting 2010
Edinburgh, 28-31 March 2010

In silico discovery of molecular probes and drug-like compounds: Success & Challenges
Ile de France, France, 23-25 March 2010

Fragment-Based Lead Design 2009
York/UK, 20-23 September 2009

DrugInfoMeet
Cochin/India, 19-21 August 2009

Bio-IT World Conference & Expo
Boston/USA, 27-29 April 2009

Addis Ababa University
Addis Ababa/Ethiopia, 9 January 2009

MIPTEC '08
Basel/Switzerland, 14-16 October 2008

Virtual Discovery Europe
Amsterdam/The Netherlands, 19-20 June 2008

8th International Conference on Chemical Structures
Noordwijkerhout/The Netherlands, 1-5 June 2008

Bio-IT World Conference & Expo
Boston/USA, 28-30 April 2008

6th Annual Congress: G Protein-Coupled Receptors in Drug Discovery
Berlin/Germany, 10-13 March 2008





Words of Wisdom

What's up in Bangalore?

According to Maldacena, our universe may be a three-dimensional membrane living in a four-dimensional anti de Sitter space. 'This picture is looking increasingly plausible' says Prof Duff. - The Daily Telegraph, 7 August 2002
I actually like theoretical physicists, but they tend to oversimplify things.

Although antigen expressed in potato for use in humans was effective in animals, the cooking required for human consumption of the vegetable destroyed the immunogenocity of the antigen. - Drug Discovery and Development, H P Rang (ed.), 1st edition, p. 190.
Yep folks, that's science.

Too much information is no information. - unknown

Wer Sicherheit der Freiheit vorzieht ist zu Recht ein Sklave. - Aristoteles
('Those who prefer safety to freedom are slaves, and rightly so.')

Nichts ist einfach wenn man's doppelt nimmt. - My Grandmother (at 92)
('Nothing is simple (single) if you take it double.' Doesn't quite work in English, but in German there is one word for both simple and single.)

Wenn ich Du waere, waere ich lieber ich. - Unknown
(If I were you I'd rather be me.)

Der Unterschied zwischen Theorie und Praxis ist in der Theorie groesser als in der Praxis. - Unknown
(The difference between theory and practice is bigger in theory than in practice.)

Horae vulnerant, ultima necat. - Latin proverb
(Every hour hurts, the last one kills.)