INSAIT launches new research initiative to discover medicines using AI

Artificial intelligence that reveals how diseases alter human cells and helps advance the discovery of new medicines and treatments. This is the ambitious goal of a new research unit being established at the Institute for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Technology at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, BGNES reports.

The new research division will be headed by Dr. Aleksandrina Goeva, an internationally recognised Bulgarian scientist with an impressive career in the United States and Canada. She is returning to Bulgaria from the University of Toronto, where she established and led her own lab specialising in machine learning and computational biology.

Aleksandrina Goeva is also the creator of HiDDEN, an innovative machine learning method that has identified previously undetected cellular changes associated with the development of blood cancer and disruptions to the brain's protective barrier. Her findings open up new possibilities for earlier diagnosis and a better understanding of serious diseases.

The institute's new division will bring together advances in artificial intelligence, mathematics and biology to address one of the most pressing questions facing modern medicine: how to detect disease-related changes at an earlier stage and how to guide cells back to their normal functioning.

Edited by Diana Tsankova

Translated by Kostadin Atanasov