AI Research Scientist @Roche. PhD AI/ML @ETH. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

Zurich, Switzerland
Joined October 2013
Happy to share that I could defend my PhD thesis during my doctoral examination at @ETH. Heartfelt thanks to @clemensisert for the creation of this beautiful hat 🎓 @ETH_en @ETH_DCHAB #drugdiscovery #machinelearning #compchem #deepLearning
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Happy to share our latest #preprint. 🧬👨🏻‍💻🎉 We introduce a curated training data set of 13.5k C–H alkylation reactions and show how #reactionprediction can yield a streamlined approach for accelerating #drugdiscovery. 🔎💊 Paper: doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-20… @Roche @ETH_BSSE
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With the scarcity of high-quality, leakage-free benchmarking datasets in the chem-bio space, it's really exciting to see this released today!
💥 Introducing PINDER & PLINDER With existing evals saturating without clear advances in real life downstream tasks, current progress in AI x Bio is primarily rate-limited by better datasets & evals. In two back-to-back preprints, we address this via fantastic academic-industry collaborations by @vant_ai @NVIDIA & the group at @TorstenSchwede that co-organizes CASP, @MIT: Read the release blog posts at: plinder.sh/blog/plinder & pinder.sh/blog/pinder - 🧵(1/6)
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Congratulations to Sylke Poehling! I am excited about the potential impact of Sylke as Professor of Practice in the Department @ETH_BSSE in enhancing collaboration, scientific and educational exchange between @ETH Zurich and Roche pRED. Read more: go.roche.com/fr5a3
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xLSTM is out -- putting LSTM networks on steroids to become a more than serious LLM competitor. How? Via exponential gating and enhanced (cell state) memory capacities. Does it work? Oh, yeah 🚀🚀 arxiv.org/abs/2405.04517
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Kenneth Atz retweeted
ETH-Forschende haben ein Computerverfahren entwickelt, mit dem sich pharmazeutische Wirkstoffe effizient aus der 3D-Oberfläche eines Proteins herstellen lassen - das hat das Potenzial, die Forschung zu revolutionieren. 💊 @atzkenneth #Arzneimittel #KI brnw.ch/21wJ7rF
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Kenneth Atz retweeted
A new computer process developed by chemists led by Gisbert Schneider & Kenneth Atz @ETH_en makes it possible to generate active pharmaceutical ingredients quickly based on a protein’s three-dimensional surface. Learn more on: doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-4… ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/e…
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Great catching up in Paris. 🇫🇷🥐🍷Approx. mid-way between Zurich and Cambridge. @clemensisert @josejimlun Croissants at Montmartre instead of quantum chemistry. #compchem #MachineLearning #sciencetwitter – at Paris, France
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New preprint! In this project spearheaded by Anthony Marchand and @St_Buckley we designed new chemically-induced protein interactions and experimentally validated three binders targeting Bcl2:Venetoclax, DB3:Progesterone and PDF1:Actinonin complexes. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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It was fantastic presenting our work from @ETH_en and @Roche about generative AI at the @appliedmldays AI & Molecular World track. 🧬🧑🏻‍💻 Many thanks for the excellent organization, @RebeccaNeeser @igashov @rneschneuing @damiano_sga @pschwllr @befcorreia #AMLDEPFL2024
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Preprint of the presented talk: doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-20… and the paper of the presented poster: nature.com/articles/s41557-0…
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ICML will be 🔥🔥🔥: Our workshop for ML for Life and Material Science: From Theory to Industry Applications is happening! Stay tuned for further announcements!
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Looking for a computational scientist who's interested in a permanent position in Toronto. Physics background, and some QM & ML experience a must. If you're at the #APSMarchMeeting come talk to me after my talk!
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Internship opportunity 🤓 - work with us on generative AI for antibody design Apply here: careers.roche.com/global/en/…
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After 1.5 yeas our review “Integrating #QSAR modelling and deep learning in #drugdiscovery: the emergence of deep QSAR” in @NatRevDrugDisc is out! Great team effort with Alex Tropsha, Alexandre Varnek, Gisbert Schneider, and Art Cherkasov #compchem nature.com/articles/s41573-0… – at Pittsburgh, PA
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Q: How to alter your training set selection if you only care about 1 prediction? A: Bias by similarity and train on the fly (basically kNN on steroids 🤩). Reaching chemical accuracy for a given query in QM9 this way implies 2 orders of magnitude less data than random training set selection. We also show how to derive density and dimensionality in chemical compound space. Very proud of our similarity based #machinelearning work with @Dom1Lemm and @ferchault #COMPCHEM
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SAVE THE DATE! Chemical Compound Space Conference May 21-24 2024 in Heidelberg! Amazing speakers, posters, and science! Registration will open soon! More info here: ccsc2024.github.io/ Organized by @grynova_CCC @tristanbereau @raghurama123, Carolin Müller, Stefan Chmiela, and yours truly. #chemicalspace #machinelearning
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A reaction screening approach combining HTP-experimentation with computational GNN to identify suitable substrates for late-stage C–H alkylation via Minisci-type chemistry, reported by @Roche, @ETH, @LMU_Muenchen, @DavidBKonrad, @atzkenneth, @ETH_DCHAB nature.com/articles/s42004-0…
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