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
- Chief Technology & Informatics Officer (CITO) of Pangea Bio, London/UK and Berlin/Germany
- Professor for Life Science Informatics at the Centre for Molecular Science Informatics of the University of Cambridge, UK
- Co-founder of Healx Ltd., for data-driven drug repurposing for rare diseases, Cambridge/UK
- Co-founder of PharmEnable Ltd., for accessing new chemistry for difficult targets, Cambridge/UK
- University Website
- Publications (Google Scholar)
- DrugDiscovery.NET - Discussing AI in Drug Discovery (Blog)
- Contact
23rd ICSB MeetingOxford, MS, 7-10 April 2025
Oncode Accelerator Summit 2024Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 28 November 2024
Oxford Scientific/Artificial Intelligence SocietyOxford, UK, 14 November 2024
2024 MGMS Virtual Lecture TourVirtual Event, 11 November 2024
Digital Discovery Webinar: Artificial Intelligence and Data in Drug Discovery and DevelopmentVirtual 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.)