BIOS 269: AI in Drug Discovery and Development

Course Description

This hands-on mini-course introduces practical AI workflows for drug discovery and development, beginning with legacy pitfalls¿poor translation, docking bias, single-target limits¿and why AI can solve them. Students clean and curate public datasets, map data types to model families, train a graph-CNN and LLM with low/no-code tools, design lab-in-the-loop experiments, and evaluate hits for toxicity, and commercialization potential. Guest speakers from pharma and venture capital share real-world AI wins. No deep programming required; ideal for experimental and computational scientists seeking to learn applied AI applications.