Science Meets Business - September

Thursday, Sep 12 · 3:30 PM · 7:00 PM

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Still dusting off the sand and working on losing that tan from the vacations? We got you. Welcome with us the new academic year in style, at this month's SmB Café! Program: 17:30 Walk-in 18:00 Start speakers 19:00 Networking Drinks 21:00 End Speakers: - Gerard van Westen: A researcher in AI and medicinal chemistry at Leiden University, Gerard van Westen can predict the interaction between candidate drugs and proteins in our bodies. Learn how he uses data from 40 years of medical research to train his models and how he envisions drug discovery in the 21st century. - Willem Jespers: During his PhD, Willem developed a new algorithm to predict drug binding to target molecules, which quickly led to a spin-off company. He will tell us a bit more about the commercial side of computational drug discovery and how to remain competitive next to big companies. - Ilan Lewin: Automating soil sensing at large scales. He Will bring his robot so don't miss it! Let SMB if you'll be there! Attendance to Science meets Business events is free of charge. However, in order to know how many seats, drinks and snacks we should provide, we would like to know how many people to expect. This is why we kindly request you register for the events if you are joining, and please let us know if you will no longer be able to attend (no hard feelings). Register on the SMB website: https://www.sciencemeetsbusiness.nl/SmBEvents/2024-09

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Biopartner gebouw 1, Biopartner gebouw 1, J.H. Oortweg 21, 2333 CH Leiden, Nederland

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