AITHYRA Symposium AI for Life Science, Vienna

AITHYRA Symposium “AI for Life Science”

8 September 2025, 11.00 am - 10 September 2025, 2.00 pm

House of Industry, Schwarzenbergplatz 4, 1030 Vienna

350 attendees including speakers

Registration Link:

https://cemm.at/aithyra-symposium-ai-in-life-science

By registering for the symposium you agree:

- to pay a one-off registration fee of €150 before the end of August 2025, regardless of whether you attend one lecture or the entire symposium, which we highly recommend. The bank details are included in the confirmation email, and you will receive an official receipt once the money has arrived.

- that event photos might be used on AITHYRA communication channels.

- that there is a limited amount of poster presentations, the organizers will inform the applicants about the outcome by 25 August 2025.

The registration link will be closed when the maximum number of attendees is reached, latest by 20 August 2025. We are looking forward to meeting you at the AITHYRA Symposium!

Organizers:

Michael Bronstein (AITHYRA/Oxford), Gabriele Corso (MIT), Bruno Correia (EPFL), Anita Ender (AITHYRA/CeMM), Andrew White (Future House), Georg Winter (AITHYRA/CeMM)

Keynote Lecture:

Nobel Laureate Frances H. Arnold (Caltech)

Innovation by Evolution: Bringing New Chemistry to Life

Speaker line up:

Mohammed AlQuraishi (Columbia)

Nathan Benaich (Airstreet Capital)

Alex Bronstein (ISTA)

Kyunghyun Cho (NYU, Genentech)

John Chodera (MSKCC)

Erika DeBenedictis (Align Bio)

Miquel Duran-Frigola (Ersilia)

Tony Hyman (MPI Dresden)

Cigall Kadoch (Dana Farber)

Ben Lehner (Sanger)

Prisca Liberali (FMI)

Fan Liu (Leibniz FMP)

Mo Lotfollahi (Sanger)

Emma Lundberg (Stanford)

Matthias Mann (MPI Munich)

Debbie Marks (Harvard)

Brian Paegel (UC Irvine)

Dana Pe’er (MSKCC)

Silvi Rouskin (Harvard)

Neville Sanjana (NYU)

Philippe Schwaler (EPFL)

Mikko Taipale (Uni Toronto)

Nico Thomä (EPFL)

Barbara Treutlein (ETH)

Gregory Verdine (LifeMine Tx)

Marinka Zitnik (Harvard)

Tentative Program:

Monday, September 8, 2025

11:00 | Registration

12:00 | Opening and Welcome

12:15 | Session 1: From Sequences to Structures – AI and the Protein Universe

14:15 | Coffee Break

14:45 | Session 2: One Cell at a Time – AI and the Single-Cell Revolution

16:45 | Coffee Break

17:15 | Keynote Lecture

18:30 | Poster Session & Flying Dinner

Tuesday, September 9, 2025

9:00 | Session 3: Cracking the Code –Genomics, Chromatin and RNA Regulation

11:00 | Coffee Break

11:30 | Session 4: New Models & Data Sources

13:00 | Lunch

14:15 | Session 5/1: Molecules by Design – Strategies for AI-Driven Drug Discovery

15:45 | Coffee Break

16:15 | Session 5/2: Molecules by Design – Strategies for AI-Driven Drug Discovery

17:45 | Snacks and Drinks

Wednesday, September 10, 2025

9:30 | Session 6: Life in Motion – Condensates, Cellular Dynamics, & Beyond

11:00 | Coffee Break

11:30 | Session 7: Making a Dent – Industrial, NPO & Business Perspective

13:30 | Closing Remarks

13:45 | Farewell Lunch