Elicit interviews Merck KGaA data science lead: AI is the first tech attempting to do the work for us
elicitorg · x · 2026-11-02
Elicit released a conversation with Parantu Shah, who leads data science at EMD Serono / Merck KGaA with 20+ years of ML in biology. His view: most technologies made scientists better informed, but AI is the first attempting to do the work itself — and they discuss what that shift means for drug discovery.
Related event: Merck Data Science Head: AI First Tech That Works for Scientists(2 posts)→
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