Royal Society Wolfson Fellow & Faculty at Imperial College London. EBM at @OxfordJournals Briefings in #Bioinformatics, @Nature_NPJ #PrecisionOncology, et al.
Joined September 2012
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Mar 14
Check out my latest article: PhD Studentship in Artificial Intelligence for Structure-Based Virtual Screening linkedin.com/pulse/phd-stude… via @LinkedIn
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Enjoyed speaking at the SAE Media Group's AI in Drug Discovery conference. A big thank you to them for organising and also for my interview smgconferences.com/documentp…
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Enjoyed reading "Hit identification in ultra large virtual screening: an integrative review and future challenges"
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Jan 26
So much done, so much more left to do: "Seven in 10 people now survive their cancer five years or more, up from only half in the mid-70s" pressroom.cancer.org/cancer-…
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16 Dec 2025
FutureHouse has announced the 2026 AI-for-Science Independent Postdoctoral Fellowship (deadline 13 Feb 2026). Applicants need a co-advisor. I am happy to consider candidates: email p.ballester@imperial.ac.uk with CV 2-page proposal. All info at futurehouse.org/fellowship
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Pedro Ballester retweeted
13 Dec 2025
For those of us who love Spain it has been a depressing week, seeing yet again how corruption and graft are so embedded in the political system. The current government, which came to power promising to change everything, has proved the most extensively and deeply corrupt of all.
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Pedro Ballester retweeted
16 Nov 2025
Academic publishing is perhaps the greatest scam perpetrated on intelligent people
1) Write grants (unpaid)
2) Do research
3) Write papers
4) Peer review (unpaid)
5) PAY up to $12K to publish
6) Need publications to get grants (back to step 1)
Publishers: 38% profit margins
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3 Nov 2025
Looking forward to speaking at this AI for Drug Discovery conference
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22 Oct 2025
Brandolini’s Bullshit Asymmetry Principle: “The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.” And this is often what it means to be a referee nowadays...
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30 Sep 2025
Happy to share our latest research on predicting temozolomide response in low-grade glioma patients using large-scale machine learning.
We explored 12 machine learning classification algorithms across six types of omics data.
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26 Sep 2025
🚀 Just published in Pattern Recognition:
We present LDMO-CCP, a conformal prediction model using molecular clustering for better uncertainty quantification across chemical spaces.
🔹 Identifies Proscilladin as broad-spectrum cell-active inhibitor
👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.202…
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25 Sep 2025
Really enjoyed my visit and talk last week at UC Berkeley (bidmap.berkeley.edu/seminars…).
Many thanks to BidMap for the warm hospitality!
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9 Sep 2025
Honored to have been invited to visit and speak at UC Berkeley
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Pedro Ballester retweeted
20 Aug 2025
We are hiring. If you are interested and consider yourself eligible for the post, feel free to apply:
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28 Aug 2025
Check out our work on how to predict in vivo responses to drugs in PDX mice.
Thanks to Shruti Gupta, Ph.D. , Vikash K Mohani and @shandar4all
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20 Aug 2025
Excited to share the publication of SCORCH2, a cutting-edge machine-learning scoring function! Check out the details at: advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley… Our rigorous evaluations prioritize transparency, ensuring no training-test overlap and full disclosure of the training set composition
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11 Aug 2025
💊💥 Which method for off-target drug repurposing & reveal hidden targets?
We just pitted 7 molecular target prediction tools against each other to find out. 🏆
🔍 Spoiler: problem-aligned benchmarking is essential.
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