AI accelerates genetic discovery for cardiac disease treatments, says Gladstone scientist Christina V. Theodoris
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Lauren J. Young
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Christina V. Theodoris, a physician-scientist at Gladstone Institutes and UCSF, is developing AI models to accelerate the discovery of genetic drivers of diseases and potential gene therapies. Her work focuses on using artificial intelligence to identify disease-causing genetic targets more quickly than traditional methods, with a particular emphasis on cardiac diseases. The AI approach can work across multiple targets and diseases simultaneously, significantly speeding up the pace of biomedical discovery.
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