Owkin
Salma Buddaseth currently serves as the Senior Director of Business Intelligence for CorpDev & Strategy at Owkin, a position held since July 2023. Prior experience includes a role as Senior Director of Competitive Intelligence for Strategy/Oncology R&D at AstraZeneca from November 2021 to June 2023, and prior positions at Wolfe Research, LLC, and Cantor Fitzgerald focusing on equity research in global pharmaceuticals and biotechnology. Earlier in career, Salma contributed as a Research Fellow at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center emphasizing pre-clinical drug development and immuno-therapeutics. Salma also gained experience as a Market/Landscape Analyst and Scientific Writer at PreScouter, Inc. Educational qualifications include a Ph.D. in Oncology, Molecular Pharmacology, and Regenerative Science from Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, research at the Indian Institute of Science on nanoparticle-mediated drug delivery, and a degree in Biotechnology from Goa University.
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Owkin
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Owkin believes that medical research should be collaborative, inclusive, and privacy-preserving. Today, Owkin is pioneering AI in healthcare. It leverages its collaborative federated learning software and expert AI capabilities to bring solutions to optimize drug development and improve patient care in oncology. Owkin’s work has been published in Nature Medicine and other top-tier journals. Owkin has raised over $70M from leading VC funds and is now working with the most prominent cancer centers and pharmaceutical companies in Europe and the US. Additionally, Owkin leads several federated learning consortia, including; MELLODDY, to facilitate 'co-opetive' drug discovery between pharma companies, and Healthchain, to allow collaborative research across multiple hospitals. Owkin was co-founded in 2016 by Thomas Clozel, MD, a clinical research doctor and former assistant professor in clinical hematology, and by Gilles Wainrib, Ph.D., an academic pioneer in the field of Artificial Intelligence in biology.