Cambridge, UK, 19 June 2020 - OKRA, a leading provider of Artificial Intelligence (AI) driven analytics for Life Sciences, today hit an important milestone, delivering 2 million validated predictions so far in 2020, smashing through its yearly target in just half the expected time. This underscores OKRA’s achievements in empowering the pharmaceutical industry with explainable, real-time AI solutions.
5 June 2020: Biorelate, a UK-based AI start up, is offering all researchers free use of Galactic, its cloud-based web tool, to support biomedical research while lab access is restricted around the world.
Owkin is a French-American startup, backed by Google Ventures among others, that deploys Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Federated Learning for medical research. The company was co-founded in 2016 by Thomas Clozel, a hematologist oncologist and researcher, and Gilles Wainrib, a computer science teacher-researcher at the École Normale Supérieure, and a Stanford University PostDoc.
Over the years, the team at Owkin has developed AI systems to analyze and interpret multimodal medical data, including pathology images, radiology images, genetic data, lab analysis, and clinical outcomes. The company recently announced the launch of a new product -- Virtual Staining, integrated as a feature in Owkin Studio platform.
In this post, we decided to highlight eleven entrepreneurial women, leading the way in applying advanced computational technologies, such as machine learning (ML), deep learning (DL), and other artificial intelligence (AI) components, for tackling some of the hardest challenges of science -- in drug discovery and healthcare. This list is composed in alphabetical order.
