Editor’s Note: In the September 4, 2024 issue of the Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey, Steve Lubetkin’s CompuSchmooze column discusses the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in pharmaceutical research. The column is based on this interview with drug researcher Christian Olsen.
It typically takes ten years and $2.5 billion to bring a new drug to market – but now, scientists are using new technology (including AI) to shorten the drug discovery funnel and reduce the costs of drug therapy research.
What does this mean for faster and better treatments?
Christian Olsen is associate vice president and a Business Segment Lead at Dotmatics. Previously, he was a Solutions Architect for the Geneious Biologics Antibody Discovery Platform. His background includes infectious disease and public health, bioinformatics, drug target selection, and drug resistance surveillance.
Boston-based Dotmatics (dotmatics.com) develops analytical platforms for biologic and drug discovery and believes adding artificial intelligence to its data analysis platforms will speed up drug development dramatically.
In this video excerpt, Olsen explains how AI can speed the sequencing of DNA and RNA, essential components of new drug combination experiments.
You can listen to our interview with Olsen in the player below.
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Steve Lubetkin is the news director for StateBroadcastNews.com. Steve’s journalism background includes print and broadcast reporting for NJ news organizations. He refocused on multimedia journalism and podcast production after a long career in corporate branded journalism and public relations.
He has won numerous awards for his audio and video news reporting from the Garden State Journalists Association, and he has also been recognized for video by the New Jersey Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. He has produced a wide range of audio and video podcasts in his other role as managing partner of State Broadcast News’s parent, The Lubetkin Media Companies.
Steve is co-author, with Toronto-based podcasting pioneer Donna Papacosta, of the book, The Business of Podcasting: How to Take Your Podcasting Passion from the Personal to the Professional.
In March 2021, he was elected to the board of directors of the New Jersey Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, and in July 2021 he was named secretary of the chapter. In August 2021, he was honored by SPJ with one of the organization’s 2021 Howard S. Dubin Outstanding Pro Member Awards, given to regular members of an SPJ chapter who go above and beyond in serving their chapter.
Steve has been the computer columnist for the Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey, since 1996.
Steve also has reported on-camera and produces virtual conferences for NJSpotlightNews.org, a public policy news coverage website focused on New Jersey government and industry; and for clients of StateBroadcastNews.com, a division of The Lubetkin Media Companies LLC.
From May-November 2019, he produced and reported a weekly podcast, The CRE News Hour, a news and features program focusing on the commercial real estate industry.
From 2014 to 2019 he was New Jersey and Philadelphia editor for GlobeSt.com and filled in covering Chicago/Midwest and Atlanta.
Steve has also served (from August 2017 to March 2018) as national broadcast news correspondent for CEOReport.com, a news website focused on practical advice for senior executives in small- and medium-sized companies.
Earlier in his career, Steve reported on rock music at the Jersey Shore for the Asbury Park Press, and was a broadcast news anchor and production engineer for WJLK-AM & FM, then owned by the Press. He also worked as a general assignment reporter for the Red Bank Register, Shrewsbury, NJ.
You can email Steve at steve@statebroadcastnews.com.
