Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
Shattering the Status Quo: AI, Human Organoids and the Future of Precision Drug Discovery
Speaker
Professor Pradipta Ghosh
Coordinator
Jim LaCombe
Drug discovery has long been trapped in an expensive cycle of trial and error. In this talk, Dr. Pradipta Ghosh reveals a transformative new paradigm that fuses Artificial Intelligence with Precision Network Medicine to decode complex diseases like inflammatory bowel disease. Drawing on the pioneering work of the HUMANOID™ Center of Research Excellence, she showcases how AIguided “disease-in-a-dish” organoid biobanks and Phase 0 human-first models can forecast therapeutic success, filter out failures early, and bring lifesaving treatments to patients faster—redefining what’s possible in translational medicine.
Speaker Bio
Presenter: Pradipta Ghosh, a physician-scientist, is a professor of medicine and of cellular & molecular medicine at UC San Diego. She is the Founding Director of the Institute for Network Medicine and its HUMANOID™ Center of Research Excellence, where her team integrates AI, systems biology and human organoid models to transform how we understand and treat chronic diseases by making biology explainable, reproducible, and truly human-centered.
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