Marinka Zitnik

Dr. Marinka Zitnik, an associate professor of biomedical informatics at Harvard, is a pioneer in using AI for drug discovery. In their conversation, she highlights the challenge of treating rare diseases and shares how AI-driven drug repurposing can accelerate solutions. Marinka emphasizes the need for collaboration between machine learning and biology to tackle real patient problems. She also defines AI agents as systems capable of learning and taking action, which she believes is vital for advancing scientific discovery.