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The medical potential of AI and metabolites

1,979,633 views | Leila Pirhaji • TED2019

Many diseases are driven by metabolites -- small molecules in your body like fat, glucose and cholesterol -- but we don't know exactly what they are or how they work. Biotech entrepreneur and TED Fellow Leila Pirhaji shares her plan to build an AI-based network to characterize metabolite patterns, better understand how disease develops -- and discover more effective treatments.

Many diseases are driven by metabolites -- small molecules in your body like fat, glucose and cholesterol -- but we don't know exactly what they are or how they work. Biotech entrepreneur and TED Fellow Leila Pirhaji shares her plan to build an AI-based network to characterize metabolite patterns, better understand how disease develops -- and discover more effective treatments.

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Leila Pirhaji

Biotech entrepreneur

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Leila Pirhaji uses artificial intelligence for drug discovery and the treatment of metabolic diseases.

WCVB5, 2019 | Watch

"CityLine: Sunday, August 25, 2019: Leila Pirhaji, founder of Revive Med"

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Devin Coldewey | TechCrunch, 2018 | Article

"ReviveMed turns drug discovery into a big data problem and raises $1.5M to solve it"

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Leila Pirhaji et al. | Nature Methods, 2016 | Article

Revealing disease-associated pathways by network integration of untargeted metabolomics

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