CAMBRIDGE AI CLUB FOR BIOMEDICINE

The AI Club brings together the Biomedical AI and Machine Learning community in Cambridge, to discuss common themes and explore different topics and methodologies. The sessions open conversations to inform, inspire, and connect researchers at all levels, on topics within computational biology, AI and bioinformatics.

Each session has two talks, followed by an interactive discussion and networking. Talks will be focused on methods and cover the details that so often get hidden in the supplement. We welcome scientists from across Cambridge to join us on the first Thursday of the month, for talks, discussion, and networking over beer and pizza. Events take place in the Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Puddicombe Way, Cambridge CB2 0AW. No need to register in advance – just turn up!

The AI Club is a joint initiative, currently organised by Namshik Han’s group at the Milner Therapeutics Institute and Florian Markowetz’s group at Cancer Research UK. Susanne Bornelöv’s and Greg Hannon’s groups also support this initiative and we are welcoming everyone who wants to help, whatever lab/group/company they are from! If you are interested in getting involved in the committee, please email Seokjun Lee.

Next up

Theme: Spatial Biology
Date: 2 April

Times:
5.45pm – Doors (and bar)
6:00pm-7:00pm – Talks
7:00pm – Pizza and networking

Speakers:

Francesca Drummer, EBI

Talk title: InterScale: Towards Modelling Long-Range Interactions in Spatial Transcriptomics

Francesca Drummer is a joint PhD student in Theis lab and Jäkel lab at the Technical University of Munich, where she is working on computational method development and analysis of single cell and spatial transcriptomics with a focus on Alzheimer disease.

and

Veronika Kedlian, EBI

Talk title: A Human Thymus Ageing Cell Atlas Defines A Spatially Resolved Model of Involution

Veronika is a postdoctoral researcher in the Saez-Rodriguez lab at EMBL-EBI. She completed he PhD and postdoc with Sarah Teichmann at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and University of Cambridge, where she applied single-cell and spatial genomics to systematically dissect changes that accompany human tissue ageing, focusing on human thymus and skeletal muscle. A central question driving her doctoral work was how changes in different cellular compartments of an ageing organ interact and compound to produce organ-level functional decline. She holds a BSc and MSc degrees in Biology from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine and her interest in the biology of ageing was first sparked by undergraduate research on Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome at A*STAR Singapore.

Future event dates can be viewed by clicking on the AI Club Schedule below.

AI Club Schedule (click to expand)

The AI Club takes place on the first Thursday of the month. Registration is not usually required for these events.

Next Events:
Date: 7 May
Theme: Agentic AI

Date: 4 June
Theme: Benchmarking AI models

Times:
5.45pm – Doors (and bar)
6:00pm – 7:00pm – Talks
7:00pm – Pizza and networking

2026 Themes
AI in Drug Discovery, AI at the Molecular Frontier.

About the Organisers

The AI Club is a joint initiative, currently organised by Namshik Han’s Artificial Intelligence and Computational Research Group at the Milner Therapeutics Institute, Florian Markowetz’s group at Cancer Research UK. Susanne Bornelöv’s and Greg Hannon’s groups also support this initiative and we are welcoming everyone who wants to help, whatever lab/group/company they are from!

Yibin Chun Milner Therapeutics Institute	Namshik Han Milner Therapeutics Institute
Florian Markowetz Cancer Research UK	William Xu Milner Therapeutics Institute
Ines Machado Cancer Research UK	William Prew Cancer Research UK
Susanne Bornelöv Cancer Research UK	Fatima Baldo Milner Therapeutics Institute
Seokjun Lee Milner Therapeutics Institute	Daniel Guerrero Romero EBI/AstraZeneca
Anna Maria Papameletiou Cancer Research UK	Chenge Du Cancer Research UK CI
Toby Milne-Clark Early Cancer Institute	Jaesub Park Milner Therapeutics Institute
Hyun Lee Milner Therapeutics Institute	Hannah Bazin Milner Therapeutics Institute

About the Organisers

The AI Club is a joint initiative, organised by Namshik Han’s Artificial Intelligence and Computational Research at the Milner Therapeutics Institute, Florian Markowetz’s group at Cancer Research UK. Susanne Bornelöv’s group at BioChemistry Department and Greg Hannon’s Small RNAs and Mammalian Genomics group at Cancer Research UK also support this initiative and we are welcoming everyone who wants to help, whatever lab/group/company they are from!”

Yibin Chun
Milner Therapeutics Institute

Namshik Han
Milner Therapeutics Institute

Florian Markowetz
Cancer Research UK

William Xu
Milner Therapeutics Institute

Ines Machado
Cancer Research UK

William Prew
Cancer Research UK

Susanne Bornelöv
Cancer Research UK

Fatima Baldo
Milner Therapeutics Institute

Susanne Bornelöv
Cancer Research UK

Seokjun Lee
Milner Therapeutics Institute

Daniel Guerrero Romero
EBI/AstraZeneca

Anna Maria Papameletiou
Cancer Research UK

Chenge Du
Cancer Research UK CI

Jaesub Park
Milner Therapeutics Institute

Hyun Lee
Milner Therapeutics Institute

Hannah Bazin
Milner Therapeutics Institute

Toby Milne-Clark
Early Cancer Institute

Feedback

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Venue and Accessibility Information

The Lecture Theatre is located on the ground floor of the Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, next to the reception desk. There is step-free access from the building entrance to the Lecture Theatre. There is also step-free access to the ground floor toilet facilities, which are located next to the vending machines in the building cafe. The Lecture Theatre is equipped with a hearing loop.
Directions to the JCBC
Accessiblity information on AccessAble

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