{"id":127844,"date":"2021-09-19T10:25:13","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T17:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/dr-ola-engkvist-ph-d-astrazeneca-head-molecular-ai-discovery-sciences-rd"},"modified":"2021-09-19T10:25:13","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T17:25:13","slug":"dr-ola-engkvist-ph-d-astrazeneca-head-molecular-ai-discovery-sciences-rd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/dr-ola-engkvist-ph-d-astrazeneca-head-molecular-ai-discovery-sciences-rd","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Ola Engkvist, Ph.D. \u2014 AstraZeneca \u2014 Head, Molecular AI, Discovery Sciences, R&amp;D"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BiMOxWMw4Lg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Applying Artificial Intelligence &amp; Machine Learning In Drug Discovery &amp; Design \u2014 Dr. Ola Engkvist Ph.D., Head, Molecular AI, Discovery Sciences, R&amp;D, AstraZeneca<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Dr. Ola Engkvist is Head of Molecular AI in Discovery Sciences, AstraZeneca R&amp;D (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.astrazeneca.com\/).\">https:\/\/www.astrazeneca.com\/).<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Engkvist did his PhD in computational chemistry at Lund University followed by a postdoc at Cambridge University.<\/p>\n<p>After working for two biotech companies Dr. Engkvist joined AstraZeneca in 2004. He currently leads the Molecular AI department, where the focus is to develop novel methods for ML\/AI in drug design 0 productionalize the methods and apply the methods to AstraZeneca\u2019s small molecules drug discovery portfolio.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Engkvist\u2019s main research interests are deep learning based molecular de novo design, synthetic route prediction and large scale molecular property predictions, and he has published over 100 peer-reviewed scientific publications.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/dr-ola-engkvist-ph-d-astrazeneca-head-molecular-ai-discovery-sciences-rd\">Continue reading \u201cDr. Ola Engkvist, Ph.D. \u2014 AstraZeneca \u2014 Head, Molecular AI, Discovery Sciences, R&amp;D\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Applying Artificial Intelligence &amp; Machine Learning In Drug Discovery &amp; Design \u2014 Dr. Ola Engkvist Ph.D., Head, Molecular AI, Discovery Sciences, R&amp;D, AstraZeneca Dr. Ola Engkvist is Head of Molecular AI in Discovery Sciences, AstraZeneca R&amp;D (https:\/\/www.astrazeneca.com\/). Dr. Engkvist did his PhD in computational chemistry at Lund University followed by a postdoc at Cambridge University. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":400,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}