For centuries the art of medicine has been dominated by bumps, bruises, or other symptoms, felt by the patient or discovered by the physician, with eyes ever-magnified by increasingly sophisticated scanning technology: the microscope, the x-ray, and eventually the MRI. But however powerful the machine, the underlying model remained the same. To find the illness, doctors first had to look for the symptom. To diagnose the cancer, they had to see the tumor. To find a drug, they had to undergo a long, costly, and laborious process of trial and error, trying millions of natural compounds on animals to find one that seemed to work.
This approach to medicine may be coming to an end.
In a breathtaking paradigm shift, medicine is moving from the species level—the ingrained assumption that drugs and diseases work the same in all human beings—to the individual level, unlocking new healing possibilities in the minute differences between seemingly similar diseases and their individual victims. The result will be a new age of medical technology, dominated not by cell, tissue, and organ replacements but by early diagnosis and individualized drug treatments.
At this week's METal, Dr. Daniel Kraft will talk about the emerging paradigm shifts that marry computational tools with biology to develop a different model: deploying information technology to design drug-like qualities right into the molecules from the very start. Instead of mixing compounds in test tubes at random, this process begins by teaching computers what the molecular structure of an effective drug ought to look like, and what molecular structures it ought to avoid.
Dr. Daniel Kraft is a Stanford and Harvard trained physician-scientist and entrepreneur with over 20 years of biomedical research and clinical experience. He has chaired the Medicine track for Singularity University since its inception, and is executive director for FutureMed.
This Event Does INCLUDE Breakfast!
RSVP for this METal Event
$35 for METal Members
$45 for METal guests
Please RSVP Before 6pm Friday June 29
Anyone after 6pm will incur a $5 additional fee.
This is a Men's Only Event
No One Under 21 without Approved Exceptions
9:30am - 10:30am Checkin Time / Connecting
10:30am - 12:00pm Speeches / Performances
New Location:
Bergamot Station / Building I
2519 Michigan Avenue
Santa Monica, CA 90404
For membership information and inquiry, please email Maya@METalInternational.com
For centuries the art of medicine has been dominated by bumps, bruises, or other symptoms, felt by the patient or discovered by the physician, with eyes ever-magnified by increasingly sophisticated scanning technology: the microscope, the x-ray, and eventually the MRI. But however powerful the machine, the underlying model remained the same. To ...
