Panellists Prof Kim Jelfs
Prof. Kim Jelfs is a Professor of Computational Materials Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at Imperial College. Her group specialises in the use of computer simulations and artificial intelligence to assist in the discovery of supramolecular materials, particularly porous materials and organic electronics, working closely with experimental collaborators. Kim was awarded a 2018 Royal Society of Chemistry Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize, a 2019 Philip Leverhulme Prize in Chemistry, was the 2022 Blavatnik Awards Laureate in Chemistry and held an European Research Council Starting Grant. She is co-Director of the Institute for Digital Molecular Design and Fabrication at Imperial and an Associate Editor for Chemical Communications. She Co-Directs the UK’s AI for Chemistry hub (AIChemy) funded by the EPSRC. Dr Anshu Bhardwaj Anshu Bhardwaj has more than 17 years of experience in applications of data science in genomics and drug discovery. She did her Ph.D. from CSIR- CCMB in the domain of precision medicine. Her lab (AB-Data Science Lab) is dedicated towards unraveling the intricacies of complex phenotypes, with a keen focus on infectious and mitochondrial diseases. Over years, her team has developed new algorithms and platforms towards discovering novel targets and inhibitors utilizing network and AI/ML based approaches. She served as an Associate scientific advisor to Science Translational Medicine and is on the Editorial board of PLoS Global Public Health, Journal of Genetics, Review Editor for Frontiers in Systems Biology, Protein Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics and Advisor to F1000 Research Galaxy Gateway. She has several publications, honors and awards to her credit - She was selected as one of the four Young Innovators in India by United National Development Program (UNDP), selected for the prestigious International Visitor Leadership Program by US State Department, awarded Newton- Bhabha Fund from the British Council and the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK and long-term Group Leader Fellowship by INSERM, France. She conceived, designed and implemented crowdsourcing as a tool to tackle challenging scientific problems, which is considered a futuristic approach to drive big data scientific projects and has trained over 500 students. She also utilizes innovative education technologies like video games to raise awareness on pressing health issues. More recently, her lab has developed a unique scientific video game for awareness on AMR which is endorsed by WHO, India.
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