After completing his PhD degree studying transcriptional kinases in yeast, Pengda Liu had one goal for his career: to make a difference for human health. Today, he is on the cusp of advancing a promising compound into the drug discovery and […]

Almost every organism on Earth tracks the planet’s day/night cycle, and uses that information to coordinate important elements of physiology and behavior. That may seem like just a fun bit of scientific trivia, but it’s actually a core component of […]

Professor Jörg Stetefeld is neither a virologist nor an immunologist. From his earliest days as an X-ray crystallographer, his entire career has focused on resolving the structure of proteins. But when the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the globe, […]

In celebration of this year’s International Women in Engineering Day, we asked a couple of our Atoms to share their experiences as women in the sciences and engineering, and how they think we can come together and create change in this field. Read […]

- by Abraham Heifets, co-founder and CEO of Atomwise originally posted on Medium In their cogent and insightful discussion about the different perspectives of Tech and Biotech investors, Drs. Shaywitz and Gibson make the implicit assumption that AI […]

Grant Wishart PhD, Director CADD & Structural Biology, leads the Charles River CADD & Structural Biology groups, which provide computational chemistry, structural biology, biophysics and protein production services across partner drug discovery […]

Abraham Heifets was working at IBM Research on high performance data processing when his career interest veered toward drug discovery. A big data guy, he found himself studying organic chemistry—specifically chemical synthesis planning—and […]

Apply for the Artificial Intelligence Molecular Screening (AIMS) Awards Program The AIMS Award program, started in 2017, is designed to support promising researchers with resources that will help advance their work. AIMS Awards target research […]

- by Stefan Schroedl, Head of Machine Learning at Atomwise Originally posted on Medium This post is intended for my fellow machine learning engineers who are curious about applications in medicine, biology, or chemistry, but without a prior formal […]