Talk: Accelerating Vaccine Development: Towards AI-driven Autonomous Manufacturing in Pharma, WHO, Sixth Global Vaccine and Immunization Research Forum, 27th March 2025, Rio

26. März 2025 · by Ulli Waltinger · in Allgemein, Conference, Project, Publications, Research, Talk

🌱 Super humbled to be invited to the Sixth Global Vaccine and Immunization Research Forum (GVIRF) 2025 in Rio de Janeiro, Republic of Brazil last week of the World Health Organization #WHO within the workshop on: 🤖 Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (#AI): Applications to Vaccine R&D chaired by Philippe-Alexandre Gilbert, Ph.D. of the Gates Foundation.

Globally, the past decade has seen significant growth in AI-driven innovations across health care. Especially #innovations in the field of #GenAI continues to transform and enables faster, more efficient, equitable vaccine design and enhancing vaccine #manufacturing and distribution logistics. Key themes in manufacturing include:
🚀 #DigitalTwin & #Simulation: By capturing real-time data, the digital twin understands the current state, simulates the future state and is a basis for optimization
🚀 #Smart #Biomanufacturing: relies on personalization, modularization, and digitalization. Small-scale production lines with single-use components enhance efficiency and speed, while maintaining quality.
🚀 #Semantic #Data: as the backbone for process and knowledge sharing, for orchestration and workflow management along the whole lifecycle of a
product, supporting drug development, new product Introduction and process optimization

The (hybrid)session brought quite some diverse perspectives together: 🔍
✨ Systems human immunology and AI: Immune setpoint and immune health by John Tsang (Yale University)
✨ Development of a computational vaccine design pipeline for pandemic preparedness-a case study on arenaviruses by Clara Schoeder (Leipzig University)
✨ The virtual lab of AI scientists by James Zou (Stanford University)
✨ Designing stable, broadly protective mRNA vaccines with generative AI-powered feedback loops by Soham Sankaran (PopVax)
✨ Accelerating Vaccine Development: Towards AI-driven Autonomous Manufacturing in Pharma by yours truly Siemens