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SUMMARY:DDLS Annual Conference 2026
DESCRIPTION:The Data-Driven Life Science (DDLS) program\, funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (KAW)\, warmly welcomes you to the 5th DDLS Annual Conference\, taking place November 9-10\, 2026\, at Aula Magna\, Frescati Campus\, Stockholm. \n\n\n\nTarget Group: Anyone interested in data-driven life science is welcome to attend the Conference. You don´t need to be part of the SciLifeLab & Wallenberg National Program for Data-Driven Life Science\, even though the conference focuses on achievements and highlights program activities. \n\n\n\nThis two-day\, in-person event will highlight DDLS research and activities\, showcase new technologies and services available to researchers across Sweden\, and provide a forum for knowledge exchange and collaboration. Participants will have the opportunity to: \n\n\n\n\nShare and discuss research findings\n\n\n\nExplore ideas and insights across disciplines\n\n\n\nBuild networks for collaboration and career development\n\n\n\nGain perspectives beyond their own fields of expertise\n\n\n\n\nThe conference begins with a light network lunch and registration on November 9 (11:30–12:30) and concludes with a networking lunch on November 10 (12:30–13:30). \n\n\n\nKeynotes\n\n\n\n\n\nLindsay EdwardsDr Lindsay Edwards\, Chief Technology Officer and President of PlatformsRelation\n\n\n\n\n\nKaroline FustAssociate Professor and head of the Lab of Microbial Systems BiologyKU Leuven\n\n\n\n\n\nPreliminary program\n\n\n\nNovember 9 \n\n\n\n12:30WelcomeKeynote – Lindsey EdwardsPanel Discussion14:00Poster session I with Coffee15:00DDLS Fellows talksMeet the new DDLS FellowsPresentation of NAISS – Erik Lindahl16:30Poster session II with mingle17:30End of day\n\n\n\nNovember 10 \n\n\n\n09:00DDLS Fellows talks10:00Coffee break10:45Keynote – Karoline FaustPresentations of DDLS funded projectsConclusion12:40Lunch and networking\n\n\n\nAfter lunch\, SciLifeLab Data Centre will organize workshops. See seperate registration to register. \n\n\n\nKeynotes\n\n\n\nLindsey Edwards\nTitle: Three impactful problems in drug discovery that might be solvable with machine learning (and what we are doing about them at Relation).Bio: Lindsay is an internationally recognised leader at the interface of AI\, machine learning\, computational biology\, and drug discovery. Across both academia and industry\, he has consistently advanced the translation of science into medicine using computational sciences. In his academic career in Australia and at King’s College London\, he developed innovative computational approaches to human metabolism\, hypoxia\, and respiratory physiology. His teams pioneered methods for modelling metabolic and transcriptomic data\, applying these to diverse clinical contexts including respiratory disease\, diabetes\, hypertension\, Parkinson’s disease\, and critical illness. In industry\, Lindsay founded one of the first pharmaceutical data science divisions at GSK\, embedding machine learning and data science into every stage of the discovery pipeline. As CTO of Relation Therapeutics\, he has raised over $200M\, creating one of the most significant TechBio companies rooted in scientific translation (including forging a landmark platform multi billion dollar collaboration with GSK). His role on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Schmidt Centre at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT further reflects his international collaborative reach\, engaging with leading global scientists at the intersection of AI and life sciences. His publication record—over 40 papers in top biomedical journals (NEJM\, JAMA\, PNAS) and premier AI/ML venues (NeurIPS\, ICML\, ICLR)—is exceptionally rare\, demonstrating dual impact across medicine and computational science. He was recently elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. \n\n\n\n\nKaroline Fust\nTitle: Top-down and bottom-up exploration of alternative community types in the human gut microbiome.Bio: Karoline Faust is an Associate Professor at KU Leuven who heads the Lab of Microbial Systems Biology\, which focuses on investigating microbial community dynamics in silico and in vitro. In particular\, her team is studying interactions between human gut bacteria and the resulting dynamics with synthetic communities in controlled conditions. In addition\, the team develops new tools for the analysis of microbiome data\, specifically the analysis of microbial networks. The group’s work is thus situated at the intersection of bioinformatics\, systems biology\, and microbial ecology.Affiliation: Molecular Bacteriology Unit (Rega Institute)\, Department of Microbiology\, Immunology and Transplantation\, KU Leuven \n\n\n\n\nRegistration\n\n\n\nwill open at the end of August. \n\n\n\nDDLS Annual Poster Prize\n\n\n\nThe DDLS Poster Prize encourages PhD students and postdoctoral researchers to present high-quality work in data-driven life science. The award\, decided by a Scientific Committee jury\, includes a certificate and a travel grant of up to 5\,000 SEK. Conditions apply. If you present a poster\, please ensure you stay for the Poster Award Ceremony at 12:00 by the end of the Conference.
URL:https://www.scilifelab.se/event/ddls-annual-conference-2026/
LOCATION:Aula Magna\, Frescativägen 6\, Stockholm\, 114 18 Stockholm\, Sweden
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