Artificial Intelligence for Medicine and Science


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AI for Medicine | Individualized Diagnosis and Treatment

The state of a person is described with increasing precision incorporating modalities like genetic code, cellular atlases, molecular datasets, and therapeutics—the challenge is how to reason over these data to develop powerful disease diagnostics and empower new kinds of therapies. Our research creates new avenues for fusing knowledge and patient data to give the right patient the right treatment at the right time and have medicinal effects that are consistent from person to person and with results in the laboratory.

AI for Science | Therapeutic Science

For centuries, the method of discovery—the fundamental practice of science that scientists use to explain the natural world systematically and logically—has remained largely the same. We are using AI to change that. The natural world is interconnected, from the various facets of genome regulation to the molecular and organismal levels. These interactions across different levels yield a bewildering degree of complexity. Our research seeks to disentangle this complexity, developing AI models that advance drug design and help develop new kinds of therapies.

Latest News

Mar 2024:   Efficient ML Seminar Series

We started a Harvard University Efficient ML Seminar Series. Congrats to Jonathan for spearheading this initiative. Harvard Magazine covered the first meeting focusing on LLMs.

Mar 2024:   UniTS - Unified Time Series Model

UniTS is a unified time series model that can process classification, forecasting, anomaly detection and imputation tasks within a single model with no task-specific modules. UniTS has zero-shot, few-shot, and prompt learning capabilities. Project website.

Mar 2024:   Weintraub Graduate Student Award

Michelle receives the 2024 Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award. The award recognizes exceptional achievement in graduate studies in biological sciences. News Story. Congratulations!

Mar 2024:   PocketGen - Generating Full-Atom Ligand-Binding Protein Pockets

PocketGen is a deep generative model that generates residue sequence and full-atom structure of protein pockets, maximizing binding to ligands. Project website.

Feb 2024:   SPECTRA - Generalizability of Molecular AI

Feb 2024:   Kaneb Fellowship Award

The lab receives the John and Virginia Kaneb Fellowship Award at Harvard Medical School to enhance research progress in the lab.

Feb 2024:   NSF CAREER Award

The lab receives the NSF CAREER Award for our research in geometric deep learning to facilitate algorithmic and scientific advances in therapeutics.

Feb 2024:   Dean’s Innovation Award in AI

Jan 2024:   AI's Prospects in Nature Machine Intelligence

We discussed AI’s 2024 prospects with Nature Machine Intelligence, covering LLM progress, multimodal AI, multi-task agents, and how to bridge the digital divide across communities and world regions.

Jan 2024:   Combinatorial Therapeutic Perturbations

New paper introducing PDGrapher for combinatorial prediction of chemical and genetic perturbations using causally-inspired neural networks.

Nov 2023:   Next Generation of Therapeutics Commons

Oct 2023:   Structure-Based Drug Design

Geometric deep learning has emerged as a valuable tool for structure-based drug design, to generate and refine biomolecules by leveraging detailed three-dimensional geometric and molecular interaction information.

Oct 2023:   Graph AI in Medicine

Graph AI models in medicine integrate diverse data modalities through pre-training, facilitate interactive feedback loops, and foster human-AI collaboration, paving the way to clinically meaningful predictions.

Sep 2023:   New papers accepted at NeurIPS

Sep 2023:   Future Directions in Network Biology

Excited to share our perspectives on current and future directions in network biology.

Aug 2023:   Scientific Discovery in the Age of AI

Jul 2023:   PINNACLE - Contextual AI protein model

PINNACLE is a contextual AI model for protein understanding that dynamically adjusts its outputs based on biological contexts in which it operates. Project website.

Jun 2023:   Our Group is Joining the Kempner Institute

Excited to join Kempner’s inaugural cohort of associate faculty to advance Kempner’s mission of studying the intersection of natural and artificial intelligence.

Jun 2023:   Welcoming a New Postdoctoral Fellow

An enthusiastic welcome to Shanghua Gao who is joining our group as a postdoctoral research fellow.

Jun 2023:   On Pretraining in Nature Machine Intelligence

Zitnik Lab  ·  Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Science  ·  Harvard  ·  Department of Biomedical Informatics