Pedro Ballester

Check out my latest article: PhD Studentship in Artificial Intelligence for Structure-Based Virtual Screening linkedin.com/pulse/phd-stud… via @LinkedIn

Enjoyed speaking at the SAE Media Group's AI in Drug Discovery conference. A big thank you to them for organising and also for my interview smgconferences.com/documentportal…

Our new preprint. First prospective use of a transformer model for drug repurposing against Streptococcus pneumoniae, a major AMR threat. Great collaboration with Nick Croucher’s lab. Of 11 tested, 9 showed strong activity, some against multidrug‑resistant strains. #AI #AMR

Enjoyed reading "Hit identification in ultra large virtual screening: an integrative review and future challenges" sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Interested in drugging ion channels? Check out our study frontiersin.org/journals/drug-…

So much done, so much more left to do: "Seven in 10 people now survive their cancer five years or more, up from only half in the mid-70s" pressroom.cancer.org/cancer-statist…

FutureHouse has announced the 2026 AI-for-Science Independent Postdoctoral Fellowship (deadline 13 Feb 2026). Applicants need a co-advisor. I am happy to consider candidates: email p.ballester@imperial.ac.uk with CV + 2-page proposal. All info at futurehouse.org/fellowship

@Pableraso @grok Si María Jesús Montero hizo estas declaraciones, ¿qué te parecen desde una perspectiva ética, moral y legal?

María Jesús Montero: “se pueden obtener mordidas vendiendo la influencia que uno puede ejercer, sin que eso haya implicado ninguna irregularidad en el proceso administrativo”

For those of us who love Spain it has been a depressing week, seeing yet again how corruption and graft are so embedded in the political system. The current government, which came to power promising to change everything, has proved the most extensively and deeply corrupt of all.

Academic publishing is perhaps the greatest scam perpetrated on intelligent people 1) Write grants (unpaid) 2) Do research 3) Write papers 4) Peer review (unpaid) 5) PAY up to $12K to publish 6) Need publications to get grants (back to step 1) Publishers: 38% profit margins

Looking forward to speaking at this AI for Drug Discovery conference #tab_speakers" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">smgconferences.com/pharmaceutical…

@sharmaG30 @Nature @DalmeetS Thanks for implementing this much-needed metric

Happy to see that our lab’s open-science tool, GScholarLens has been featured by @Nature. Dalmeet Chawla (@DalmeetS) does a fantastic job highlighting how GScholarLens brings transparency to scientific metrics, helping researchers, institutions, and the community better understand research impact based on authorship. By making citation and authorship data open and traceable, the tool aims to reduce the pitfalls of metric-driven evaluation and encourage thoughtful discussion on scientific contributions. Link: nature.com/articles/d4158… @omics_lab @IITHyderabad @IndiaDST @ANRFIndia @Science_Cast @IndiaScienceTV @MicrobiomDigest @IRWatchdog @hapyresearchers @fake_journals @Richvn @NatureInd @AcademicChatter @OpenAcademics

@danijarh @Yoshua_Bengio Not the first one, Professor Et Al. almost doubles this scholar.google.com/citations?user…

Congratulations @Yoshua_Bengio!! Possibly the first scientist with one million citations in the world. Crazy how fast the field has grown 🤯

Brandolini’s Bullshit Asymmetry Principle: “The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.” And this is often what it means to be a referee nowadays...

Happy to share our latest research on predicting temozolomide response in low-grade glioma patients using large-scale machine learning. We explored 12 machine learning classification algorithms across six types of omics data. link.springer.com/article/10.118…

🚀 Just published in Pattern Recognition: We present LDMO-CCP, a conformal prediction model using molecular clustering for better uncertainty quantification across chemical spaces. 🔹 Identifies Proscilladin as broad-spectrum cell-active inhibitor 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.patc…

Really enjoyed my visit and talk last week at UC Berkeley (bidmap.berkeley.edu/seminars/pedro…). Many thanks to BidMap for the warm hospitality!

Honored to have been invited to visit and speak at UC Berkeley bidmap.berkeley.edu/seminars/machi…

We are hiring. If you are interested and consider yourself eligible for the post, feel free to apply: cam.ac.uk/jobs/research-…