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by lofatdairy 1273 days ago
BTW for anyone who wants to help but thinks this is mostly wetlab/drug development work. There's quite a bit of room in the space for the computer-vision side of things to improve decision-making and time to treat. I think it's mostly based on phenotyping by imaging and identifying low-specimen cultures but I might be totally wrong.

Some competitions:

- https://longitudeprize.org/

- https://dpcpsi.nih.gov/AMRChallenge/Finalists

Some previous work using various ML piplines:

- https://phastdiagnostics.com/

- https://acceleratediagnostics.com/publications/

- https://talisbio.com/

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I am trying for nearly a year to get a grant for my multi-objective drug combinations therapy optimizer, which seeks to adapt drug combination regimens for long-term robustness against emerging drug resistance. And I am getting one rejection after another.

I mean, yes, there is a crisis. We need action now. Many people are offering solutions and new research directions. But money are simply not there.

There is also a ton of room for work in modeling, simulation, data analysis, etc. The field could use computationally inclined people.