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Woody Sherman
@woody-sherman.bsky.social
* Founder and Chief Innovation Officer at Psivant Therapeutics
* Past:
* Chief Computational Scientist at Roivant
* Founding CSO at Silicon Therapeutics
* Global Head, Applications Science at Schrodinger
* Education:
* PhD MIT
* BA & BS UCSB
Past, Present & Future of In Silico Drug Discovery. Hear how AI, physics, scalable software, and integrated teams can impact drug discovery.

The field is advancing fast, but still plenty of challenges ahead.

Recording: www.linkedin.com/events/72911...

#DrugDiscovery #AI #CADD #CompChem #Biotech
March 3, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Exciting news -- Psivant Therapeutics has entered a strategic research collaboration with Acellera Therapeutics to advance drug discovery and optimization. Integrating quantum chemistry, machine learning, and agentic AI -- pushing the boundaries of computation. www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...
January 29, 2025 at 5:13 PM
At Psivant Therapeutics, we’re harnessing physics-based simulations to predict protein motion. This approach gives us unique insights for targeting the TNF superfamily. Learn about our innovative approach to drug discovery in this video:
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#DrugDiscovery #compchem #AI #Biotech
Motioned-Based Drug Discovery | Psivant Therapeutics
Psivant Therapeutics designing small molecule allosteric inhibitors of TNF superfamily members.
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December 4, 2024 at 3:09 PM
Oxford University Press word (phrase) of the year: brain rot

Hopefully we can avoid that here on @bsky.app

Thoreau could see this coming in 1854, when he saw society's tendency to devalue complex ideas as part of a general
decline in mental and intellectual effort.

www.bbc.com/news/article...
What is brain rot, the Oxford University Press 2024 word of the year?
The term captures concerns about the impact of consuming excessive amounts of low-quality online content.
www.bbc.com
December 2, 2024 at 6:41 PM
Exciting opportunity to see the main authors of Boltz-1 (Jeremy Wohlwend and Gabriele Corso @gcorso.bsky.social) present at #MIT on Thurs, Dec 5. Boltz-1 was shown to achieve SOTA performance at the level of AlphaFold3
#AlphaFold #drugdiscovery #proteinstructure
jclinic.mit.edu/events/boltz...
Boltz-1 Seminar – MIT Jameel Clinic
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December 2, 2024 at 6:00 PM
Protein structure prediction is going to transform biology and medicine. From AlphaFold's breakthrough to a Nobel Prize, the future is clear: structure drives innovation. #OpenFold is democratizing tools to empower researchers everywhere. Come join the movement!
www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...
OpenFold AI Research Consortium Welcomes Six New Members: Astex, Biogen, Congruence, Polaris Quantum, Psivant, and SandboxAQ
The non-profit consortium is developing publicly accessible advanced AI-based drug discovery software tools.
www.businesswire.com
November 27, 2024 at 7:22 PM
Next-gen molecular dynamics (MD) code optimized for performance on fast, vectorized central processor units and graphics processing units (GPUs) with independent memory and tens of thousands of threads. Open source under the MIT license.

Publication:
pubs.aip.org/aip/jcp/arti...
STORMM: Structure and topology replica molecular mechanics for chemical simulations
The Structure and TOpology Replica Molecular Mechanics (STORMM) code is a next-generation molecular simulation engine and associated libraries optimized for per
pubs.aip.org
November 27, 2024 at 3:00 PM
Just announced: 2025 Computer-Aided Drug Design (CADD) GRC program

The topic: "Exploring the Synergy of Machine Learning and Physics-Based Computational Chemistry to Accelerate Drug Discovery"

It is shaping up to be a seminal conference. Hope to see you there!
www.grc.org/computer-aid...
2025 Computer Aided Drug Design Conference GRC
The 2025 Gordon Research Conference on Computer Aided Drug Design will be held in Portland, Maine. Apply today to reserve your spot.
www.grc.org
November 26, 2024 at 4:36 PM