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The Pistoia Alliance brings together organizations across the entire biopharmaceutical ecosystem, delivering a broad range of learning and development opportunities.

We provide our members with opportunities to learn new skills and expertise through our conferences and educational webinar program and by participating in our portfolio of member-driven projects and communities. We also deliver specialist training programs designed to help individuals and companies to capitalise on technical concepts and innovative technologies to advance life sciences R&D.

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Being a Pistoia Alliance member enables you to learn from the brightest minds in the industry and to actively participate in learning initiatives that will help you build new skills, new connections and new strategies. Master the key skills and insight needed to address shared industry challenges and stay ahead in life sciences R&D.

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Jane Doe

Creative Director, AgencyX

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Creative Director, AgencyX

Training Programs

Pharma and Life Science AI/ML Training – Session 9: Digital Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

Agenda Automating Drug Development via AI and 3D Printing NLP in Drug Development   Speaker Prof. Moe Elbadawi, Queen Mary University   For details of our full Pharma and Life Science AI/ML Training Program and how to register, please click here.

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Pharma and Life Science AI/ML Training – Session 8: Knowledge Graphs

Agenda Knowledge graphs as a heterogeneous data store Analysis of knowledge graphs Graph RAG Graph neural networks Understanding complex biological mechanisms of action (MoA) for drugs and diseases is crucial for effective ORC prioritization and target identification. MIDAAS, our Multi-modal Integrated Data, Analytics & Agentic System, leverages GenAI-powered multi-agent systems to enhance this biological understanding. […]

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Pharma and Life Science AI/ML Training – Session 8: AI in Computational Medicinal Chemistry

AI/ML is ubiquitous across the pharma industry, at least as a label. Do all AI/ML activities actually represent artificial intelligence? We will first frame AI and ML separately, and describe why we might want one or the other. With a definition in place, we will highlgiht examples of ML/AI applications across the entire drug discovery […]

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Pharma and Life Science AI/ML Training – Session 6: LLMs as Agents in Drug Discovery

Agenda LLM agents Automating DD tasks Speakers Prof. Mike Barnes, Queen Mary University Anniek Myatt, Recursion   For details of our full Pharma and Life Science AI/ML Training Program and how to register, please click here.

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Pharma and Life Science AI/ML Training – Session 5: LLMs in Early Discovery

Agenda Introduction to target identification Knowledge extraction from literature (embedding, clustering, chatbots) Reducing the hallucinations (RAG, Graph RAG) Accessing structured data: impact on scripting and next-gen tools   Speakers Prof. Dan Crowther, University of Dundee David Brett, Associate Director of LLMs, Recursion   For details of our full Pharma and Life Science AI/ML Training Program […]

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Lab of the Future Europe

The Lab of the Future is a congress of innovation, collaboration and technology. It interrogates the latest advances and drivers shaping life science research, development and manufacturing, and how these advances can be harnessed to deliver much needed therapeutics at pace and scale. The Congress focuses on the changing nature of the modern research environment, the role of new and emerging technologies and modalities, and the shift to a more collaborative research culture.

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Anca Ciobanu
Anca Ciobanu Training Manager

Meet Our Training Manager

Anca joined the Pistoia Alliance in 2021 and has facilitated numerous roundtable discussions, webinars, and training programs. She is organizing the UX in Life Sciences Conference, leading the Lab of the Future community meetings, and contributing to various training initiatives, including: AI/ML training, General Ontology training and IDMP-O training. Anca has a background in medical engineering, holds an EMBA, and brings valuable corporate and entrepreneurial experience from the pharmaceutical industry.