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Can computers discover new medicines?

The Life Scientific

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What Was It That I Wanted to Do as a Doctoral Candidate?

After your military service, you went across to the US to do a PhD in computer science. And it was there that you spent several years working and creating some pretty abstract level mathematics. So, what was it I wanted to first go at you thinking about medicine and human health? That happened a lot later. You'd actually gone on and completed a master's degree by the age of 18.

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