MIT Professor wins Squirrel AI Award

This is really fascinating to me. Using ML algorithms/models to detect breast cancer earlier:

She also developed models to identify an antibiotic compound that kills antibiotic-resistant bacteria (like c-diff).
“The computer model, which can screen more than a hundred million chemical compounds in a matter of days, is designed to pick out potential antibiotics that kill bacteria using different mechanisms than those of existing drugs.”

https://news.mit.edu/2020/artificial-intelligence-identifies-new-antibiotic-0220

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Wow, This is Awesome! I am glad she got the award and may the patients that need such a device benefit!!