#ICML2021 invited talk round-up 1: drug discovery and cryospheric science

In this post, we summarise the first two invited talks from the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML). These presentations covered the fascinating topics of drug discovery, and the cryosphere. In Daphne's talk, she outlined some of the work she has been doing on transforming drug discovery using digital biology. To introduce the topic, Daphne described drug discovery as an interesting space that one can view as glass half-full or glass half-empty. The half-full version is demonstrated by the amazing advances in new medicines, such as vaccines, cell therapies, genetically targeted therapies, and cancer immunotherapies.