Distinguished Lectures in Microbiology

AI for Antibiotic Discovery. Cesar de la Fuente, Presidential Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Perelman School of Medicine at U Penn has pioneered computational approaches that have greatly accelerated antibiotic discovery, yielding numerous preclinical candidates. He has received over 60 major awards, has published over 130 papers including in Science, Nature Biomedical Engineering, Cell Host Microbe, and PNAS, and is an elected Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).