Kortemme: How AI Can Help Us Make New Medicines Faster

Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences Professor Tanja Kortemme, PhD, is leading groundbreaking efforts at UCSF to harness artificial intelligence for the design of entirely new proteins — with the potential to revolutionize how we treat diseases like cancer, diabetes, and Alzheimer’s.  

In a Q&A from UCSF Magazine, our vice dean of research explains how decades of federally funded research, along with UCSF’s collaborative, interdisciplinary culture, are accelerating the creation of AI-generated proteins that could become the next generation of medicines. 

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