2026 NLM Colloquia Series | Recipes for Building Agents for Biomedical Discovery

Abstract: This talk will discuss building AI agents for biomedical discovery, focusing on integrating language models with biological knowledge and domain-specific tools to support research workflows. Also, I will share what worked, what failed, what we learned about reliability, evaluation, and human-agent collaboration, and where the field may be heading in the near future. Speaker Bio: Hanchen Wang, PhD is a postdoctoral fellow jointly affiliated at Stanford University with Jure Leskovec and Genentech with Aviv Regev. His research develops computational methods to understand biological systems and advance discovery. His leading work has appeared in Nature, Science, Nature Biotechnology, and NeurIPS. He received his PhD from Cambridge, UK, working with Joan Lasenby at Trinity College, and his Physics B.S. from Nanjing. Sponsored by: Richard Scheuermann, PhD Scientific Director, Division of Intramural Research, National Library of Medicine Event Date: Monday, July 20, 2026 Time: 11:00am–12:00pm Speaker: Hanchen Wang, PhD Location: The Lister Hill Center Auditorium (LHC, building 38A)