Lemanic Life Sciences Hackathon 2024 ‒ SV ‐ EPFL

Thanks for a great first edition of the Lemanic Life Sciences Hackathon – Unlock the potential of your data!

Runner-Up Prize sponsored by SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics is awarded to the Genorobotics team

Third Prize sponsored by BioAlps goes to the team behind “Generative Antibiotics-Resistant Phage Models”

First Prize sponsored by Debiopharm goes to team behind “Aberrant Speech Recognition in Parkinson’s Patients”

📆 April 26 – 27, 2024
📍 Hall SV and SV 1717, Campus EPFL, Lausanne Switzerland (how to get to the SV Building)

Program Friday, April 26

08:30-09:00 | Arrival of participants, hand-out of badges | Hall SV

09:00-10:00 | Welcome, briefing and set-up teams | SV 1717

10:00-10:30 | Guide to Google Cloud | SV 1717 (optional)

10:30- 13:00 | Hack, hack, hack | Hall SV & SV 1717

13:00- 14:00 | Lunch | Ornithorynque (voucher)

14:00- 18:00 | Hack, hack, hack | Hall SV & SV 1717

18:00-20:00 | Pizza, beers & debrief | Hall SV

Program Saturday, April 27

08:30-09:00 | Arrival of participants | Hall SV

09:00-12:00 | Hack, hack, hack | Hall SV & SV 1717

12:00-13:00 | Lunch | Hall SV

13:00-16:00 | Hack, hack, hack | Hall SV & SV 1717

16:00-16:45 | Pitch your project – session I | SV 1717

16:45-17:00 | Coffee break | Hall SV

17:00-17:45 | Pitch your project – session II | SV 1717

18:00-18:45 | Burgers & beers | Hall SV

18:45-19:30 | Award ceremony & closing | Hall SV

Awards

Prizes were given to the best three project, we are grateful for the generous support of our sponsors.

🥇 Debiopharm Best Project Prize: Aberrant speech recognition in Parkinson’s Patients
Alexandra Psaltis, Barbara Ruvolo, Elise Boyer, Jia Shan, Tilak Purohit

🥈 SIB Runner-Up Best Project: Genorobotics
Ghassan Abboud, Ilgaz Arslan, Michela Dall’Angelo

🥉 BioAlps Third Best Project: Generative antibiotics-resistant phage model
Auguste Gardette, Emil Sharafutdinov, Maryam Cherradi, Maxime Delmas, Valentin Laforgue, Xavier Delfosse

Jury Members

Magali Bischof, Secretary General, BioAlps Association
Prof Maria Brbic, Assistant Professor, Machine Learning for Biomedicine Lab, EPFL
Dr Laurène Donati, co-founder and Executive Director, EPFL Center for Imaging
Dr Krisztian Homicsko, Chef de clinique/Medical Oncology, CHUV-UNIL
Daniel Nakhaee-Zadeh Gutierrez, COO at Adaptyv Biosystems
Prof Andy Oates, Dean, EPFL School of Life Sciences
Cédric Odje, Investment Associate, Debiopharm Innovation Fund

Are you a clinician wondering whether and how AI could assist you in your clinical/research practice?

Are you a life scientist with biological data (omics, imaging or other) that you previously published and would like to be mined by talented scientists to generate disruptive science?

Do you like to code and wrangle with data?

This Hackathon for you!

Idiap, EPFL School of Life Sciences, EPFL AI Center and CHUV together with SIB, SDSC and HUG, are running a two-days Hackathon to bring together life scientists, clinicians and data scientists as well as students!

With the overarching goal to raise awareness among clinicians and life scientists about the potential of AI in life science and clinical research, our objectives include:

Fostering interdisciplinary collaboration.
Encouraging innovative data analysis.
Promoting the re-use and sharing of valuable existing data.

We also welcome students, as well as beginners! Hackathons are a perfect playground for skill development, where you can learn new coding languages or design techniques hands-on. What’s more, they are a great opportunity to connect with like-minded individuals, mentors, and even potential employers.

Questions – contact any member of the organization committee:
Scientific matters: Raphaëlle Luisier, Maria Brbic or Alexander Mathis
Organisational matters: Eva Schier