2025 Symposium on
Artificial Intelligence and Pharmaceutical Medicine
(AIPM-India)

About Symposium

The 2025 Symposium aims to provide a forum for experts from the pharmaceutical industry, academia, and other key stakeholders to advance the use of AI in drug development and deployment. While AI has the potential to transform this paradigm, there is growing awareness of the challenges and unintended consequences that may arise. As personalized, evidence-based medicine becomes more prevalent, the use of AI to optimize drug deployment presents new and complex challenges. This symposium will serve as a platform for distinguished statisticians, data scientists, regulators, and other professionals to discuss the opportunities and challenges posed by AI in pharmaceutical medicine. It will also promote collaboration among industry, academia, regulatory agencies, and professional associations, with the goal of developing policy recommendations for the responsible implementation of AI in healthcare.

About IBSE

The Centre for Integrative Biology and Systems medicinE (IBSE) , a CoE, at IIT Madras is an interdisciplinary centre dedicated to pioneering innovative approaches and algorithms that integrate multi-dimensional data across scales, to understand, predict and manipulate complex biological systems. The centre closely collaborates with Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (RBCDSAI) , one of the premier data science and AI centres in India.

Indian Institute of Technology Madras , Chennai, is the top-ranked engineering institute in the country; and encourages interdisciplinary research at the interface of engineering, including computer science and biomedicine. While being situated in the heart of a busy metropolis, Chennai, the campus boasts hundreds of acres of forests, which are also home to various birds and animals, including the endangered blackbuck.

Schedule

Day 1 - 10 September 2025

Organizers

• Demissie Alemayehu, Pfizer, USA
• Rukmini Kumar, Vantage Research, India
• Subha Madhavan, Pfizer, USA
• Karthik Raman, IIT Madras

Programme Committee

• Demissie Alemayehu, Pfizer, USA
• Narendra Dixit, IISc Bengaluru
• Rukmini Kumar, Vantage Research, India
• Meiyappan Lakshmanan, IIT Madras
• Tanishq Lodha, Pfizer, India
• Subha Madhavan, Pfizer, USA
• Tristan Naumann, Microsoft, USA
• Karthik Raman, IIT Madras
• Leo Joseph Russo, Pfizer, USA

Speakers &Panelists

• Opening Keynote: Soumya Swaminathan - Director, MSSRF
• Demissie Alemayehu - Pfizer Inc.
• Nirav Bhatt - IIT Madras
• Aditi Bhattacharya - Ultrahuman
• Debjit Biswas - Pfizer Inc.
• Krishna Bulusu - AstraZeneca
• Javier Cabrera - Rutgers University
• Thomas Cass - Imperial College, UK
• Yong Chen - University of Pennsylvania
• Carolyn Cho - Eikon Therapeutics, University of Toronto
• Narendra Dixit - IISc Bangalore
• Pratyush Kumar - Sarvam AI
• Rukmini Kumar - Vantage Research
• Meiyappan Lakshmanan - IIT Madras
• James Lu - A*STAR, Singapore
• Subha Madhavan - Pfizer Inc.
• Faisal Mahmood - Harvard University
• Kannan Natarajan - Pfizer Inc.
• Deva Priyakumar - IIIT Hyderabad
• Karthik Raman - IIT Madras
• Radha Rangarajan - CDRI
• Mercy Ranjit - Microsoft Research
• Snehansu Saha - BITS Pilani - Goa
• Elizabeth Stuart - Johns Hopkins University
• K V Venkatesh - IIT Bombay/MetFlux

Register

Registration for this symposium is open: click here .

Important Deadlines - Registration

July 4, 2025 International Participants

August 22, 2025 Indian Participants

Registrations will be screened, and only the selected participants will be notified for payment. Early bird rates apply to all those who submit the form before July 18.

Registration fees

Category	Fee (+18% GST)
IITM Students	₹ 4000
Other Students	₹ 6000
Researchers	₹ 8000
Startups	₹ 10000
Faculty	₹ 10000
Industry	₹ 12000

Sponsors

Conference Funding

IBSE Funding

Acknowledgements

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