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Feb
16
2024

FoundHer Stories | A Fireside Chat with Peyton Greenside

When: Friday, February 16, 2024
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CT

Where: Online
Webcast Link

Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students

Contact: Sonia Kim   (847) 467-0446

Group: Innovation and New Ventures Office

Category: Lectures & Meetings

Description:

Northwestern University's Querrey InQbation Lab is hosting the FoundHer Stories series to amplify the startup stories of women scientist entrepreneurs.

Learn about Dr. Peyton Greenside’s experience spinning out BigHat Biosciences in 2019 from her postdoctoral research at Stanford University. Dr. Greenside will share how her company harnesses the power of AI and machine learning to radically reduce the difficulty of designing antibodies and other therapeutic proteins. 

While the FoundHer Stories series is focused on supporting women innovators and entrepreneurs, all are welcome to register.

Please register in advance.

OUR SPEAKER

Peyton Greenside, Ph.D., is the co-founder and CSO of BigHat Biosciences. A pioneer of deep learning applied to life science problems, Peyton has developed computational, statistical, and AI/ML techniques to model, understand, and optimize biological sequences in academia and industry. Peyton was an inaugural Schmidt Science Fellow, a computational biologist at the Broad Institute, a scientific founder of Valis, and holds a PhD from Stanford University (Accel Innovation Scholar), an MPhil in Computational Biology from Cambridge University (Herchel Smith Scholar), and a BA in Applied Math from Harvard.

https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/94143198327

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