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Addressing the irreproducibility crisis in biomedicine through human-computer interactions

Visiting speaker
Past Talk
Ahmed Alkhateeb
Fellow at Flagship Pioneering Ventures and founder of Hive Scientific
Jul 6, 2017
2:00 pm
Jul 6, 2017
2:00 pm
In-person
4 Thomas More St
London E1W 1YW, UK
The Roux Institute
Room
100 Fore Street
Portland, ME 04101
Network Science Institute
2nd floor
Network Science Institute
11th floor
177 Huntington Ave
Boston, MA 02115
Network Science Institute
2nd floor
Room
58 St Katharine's Way
London E1W 1LP, UK

Talk recording

The Irreproduciblity crisis in the biomedical literature threatens to undermine trust in the scientific enterprise. Analyses performed in the pharmaceutical industry estimate that 80-90% of the published biomedical literature cannot be independently reproduced. This problem is magnified by the fact that we produce over a million new biomedical research papers a year. Hive Scientific addresses this problem through (1) the construction of a comprehensive knowledge network of all empirical findings  through crowdsourcing, and (2) the development of objective confidence metrics that enable scientists, funding agencies, and pharmaceutical companies to distinguish between robust and weak science.  

About the speaker
Ahmed Alkhateeb completed his PhD in molecular biology from Penn State College of Medicine and his postdoctoral training at Harvard Medical School. He is currently a fellow at Flagship Pioneering Ventures and the founder of Hive Scientific, a data analytics startup that addresses the uncertainty of the irreproduciblity crisis in biotech investment and pharma business development.
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Jul 06, 2017