Pedro Ballester

Royal Society Wolfson Fellow & Faculty at Imperial College London. EBM at @OxfordJournals Briefings in #Bioinformatics, @Nature_NPJ #PrecisionOncology, et al.

[Pedro Ballester @pjballester]

Check out my latest article: PhD Studentship in Artificial Intelligence for Structure-Based Virtual Screening https://t.co/YTCtQn0klJ via @LinkedIn

[Pedro Ballester @pjballester]

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 https://t.co/KCwrEO8Ygq

[Pedro Ballester @pjballester]

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[Pedro Ballester @pjballester]

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

[Pedro Ballester @pjballester]

Enjoyed reading "Hit identification in ultra large virtual screening: an integrative review and future challenges"

https://t.co/bJ3KWD7Qtw

[Pedro Ballester @pjballester]

Interested in drugging ion channels? Check out our study https://t.co/Om6gm5xYma

[Pedro Ballester @pjballester]

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" https://t.co/RoloOp6NnQ

[Pedro Ballester @pjballester]

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 [email protected] with CV + 2-page proposal. All info at https://t.co/U2oF75kS2n

[Pedro Ballester @pjballester]

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

[Luke Stegemann @lukestegemann]

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.

[Brandon Luu, MD @BrandonLuuMD]

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

[Pedro Ballester @pjballester]

Looking forward to speaking at this AI for Drug Discovery conference

https://t.co/iwiYZZE3sv

[Pedro Ballester @pjballester]

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

[Pedro Ballester @pjballester]

@danijarh @Yoshua_Bengio Not the first one, Professor Et Al. almost doubles this https://t.co/dV7tAkBKYA

[Pedro Ballester @pjballester]

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...

[Pedro Ballester @pjballester]

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.
https://t.co/Q5HNyUu1x0

[Pedro Ballester @pjballester]

🚀 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
👉 https://t.co/nzqgnwvSSA

[Pedro Ballester @pjballester]

Really enjoyed my visit and talk last week at UC Berkeley (https://t.co/Ki89ZZfcXe).

Many thanks to BidMap for the warm hospitality!

[Pedro Ballester @pjballester]

Honored to have been invited to visit and speak at UC Berkeley

https://t.co/3iLgVEEC5a

[Taufiq Rahman @RahmanLab]

We are hiring. If you are interested and consider yourself eligible for the post, feel free to apply:
https://t.co/EvTDLre9hV