April 12 – (In Spanish) ABC writes an article about the threats of unethical artificial intelligence and interviews César de la Fuente
April 7 – (In Spanish) El Nuevo Día from Puerto Rico publishes an interview with César de la Fuente
April 3 – Listen here to the podcast On Tech Ethics! episode with Cesar de la Fuente discussing our research and some related ethical considerations.
April 3 – César de la Fuente gives a talk on “AI for antibiotic discovery” and chat with future students at the Lower Merion High School’s Ace Scholars Seminar
April 2 – César de la Fuente gives a lecture on our latest AI antibiotics work at PennFERBS
March 30 – (In Spanish) César de la Fuente interviewed by El Quincemil
March 15 – (In Spanish) TecScience publishes an article about antibiotics and our AI work
March 14 – César de la Fuente shares our latest work in AI for antibiotic discovery at the 2024 IIZD Symposium
March 14 – (In Spanish) El Diario de León writes an article on César de la Fuente´s selection as the US representative of the Global Young Academy
March 12 – César de la Fuente delivers a seminar hosted by the Nanobioelectronics and Biosensors group at the ICREA
March 12 – (In Spanish) The Huffington Post publishes an article on César de la Fuente’s selection as the US representative at de Global Young Academy
March 11 – (In Spanish) El Quincemil publishes an article on the work developed by Lucía Ageitos at De La Fuente Lab
March 9 – César de la Fuente gives a keynote on “Future RX: Power of AI and the revolution of Medicine for Gen Z” in an event organized by the Ghana Medical Student Association
March 8 – The New York Times publishes an article about the scientific agreement to prevent AI Bioweapons, signed and supported by César de la Fuente
February 26 – Our sustainable and low-cost diagnostic biosensors work was featured in The New York Times.
February 26 – (In Spanish) Quincemil publishes an article on César de la Fuente’s selection as member of the 2024 Class of Global Young Academy Inductees
January 17 – Cell Reports Physical Science selected our paper “Structure-function-guided design of synthetic peptides with anti-infective activity derived from wasp venom” as a “Hot paper” of 2023
November 18 – (In Spanish) Our research on molecular de-extinction is the topic of this episode of the Cadena SER Podcast
November 14 – (In Spanish) Listen here to a podcast Las Tarde episode with Cesar de la Fuente discussing our research.
November 7 – University of Pennsylvania Almanac article on Cesar de la Fuente’s selection as a 2023 Emerging Leader in Health and Medicine (ELHM) Scholar by the National Academy of Medicine (NAM).
November 6 – (In Spanish) El Diario Spain interviews Cesar de la Fuente on molecular de-extinction research.
November 4 – (In Spanish) El Nacional publishes article about molecular de-extinction research
October 30 – NPR interviews Cesar de la Fuente on the emerging field of molecular de-extinction.
October 29 – (In Spanish) Watch or listen to Radio el Respeto interview of Cesar de la Fuente, PI of the Machine Biology Group, conducted by renowned journalist Pablo Fuente.
October 25 – STAT news interviews Cesar de la Fuente on molecular de-extinction research and the use of AI for antibiotic discovery.
October 13 – (In Spanish) PI of the Machine Biology Group, Cesar de la Fuente was interviewed for the podcast Las 3 Principales, on the episode titled “La Ciencia de los Antibióticos”.
October 11 – Congratulations to Angelica and Cesar on the publication “Antibiotic identified by AI” in Nature Chemical Biology.
October 10 – (In Spanish) GCiencia publishes an article on our research on molecular de-extinction.
August 16 – Congratulations to Shuangzhe Lin and César de la Fuente on their article on “The emerging field of digital antibiotic discovery” on REVIVE GARDP. A special recognition for Lin for his great work on this article.
August 8 – Our latest work on molecular de-extinction was covered in a Preview for Cell Host & Microbe.
August 4 – (In Spanish) César de la Fuente was interviewed by the Aragón Radio podcast on the latest work from the team on molecular de-extinction.
August 3 – (In Spanish) Our molecular de-extinction paper was covered by numerous news outlets including Rosario3, La Razón, Nius Diario, y Xataka.
August 3 – Our latest research on molecular de-extinction of antibiotics was featured on NBC.
August 2 – (In Spanish) Our molecular de-extinction work was covered by History Latinoamérica.
August 1 – The Science Times reports on our research on molecular de-extinction.
August 1 – Our work was covered by Sigal Samuel of Vox, who writes “Using AI, scientists bring Neanderthal antibiotics back from extinction”.
July 31 – Our research on molecular de-extinction was covered by The AI Breakdown in a 7-minute video.
July 31 – (In Spanish) Our molecular de-extinction work was covered by Newsweek.
July 31 – (In Spanish) Científicos estudian moléculas de nuestros antepasados para crear nuevos antibióticos – Yahoo.
March 31 – Digital Discovery published the review article titled Deep generative models for peptide design. It was written by de la Fuente Lab members Fangping Wan and Daphne Kontogiorgos-Heintz. Congratulations Fangping and Daphne!
March 11 – ACS in Focus published Machine Learning for Drug Discovery, a book developed in the de la Fuente Lab that acts as a primer for students new to Machine Learning.
February 12 – El País published an interview with Cesar de la Fuente about his ongoing projects and scientific research within the Machine Biology Group.
February 4 – Voz de America published an article and video interview with Cesar de la Fuente about the low-cost COVID-19 antigen tests developed by the lab.
January 25 – RTVE Noticias interviewed Cesar de la Fuente for a video about the de la Fuente Lab’s development of COVID-19 tests.
November 24 – Cesar de la Fuente is on Clarivate’s 2021 annual list of Highly Cited Researchers, a list of the most highly cited scientists in the past decade with publications that are among the top one percent in the citation distribution in their fields.
November 15 – El Pais published an article about the research in our Nature BME paper as well as an article describing a variety of research on the human proteome by different groups including the de la Fuente Lab.
November 4 – GCiencia and AAAS published information about the de la Fuente lab’s work discovering encrypted antibiotics in the human proteome that is featured in our latest Nature BME paper.
September 26 – An article on antibiotic resistance and artificial intelligence published on Medium refers to the de la Fuente Lab’s publication in Communications Biology on the same topic.
September 1 – Three University of Pennsylvania Ph.D. rotation students join the de la Fuente Lab: Patrick Exconde (BMB), Hannah Kim (BMB) and Jacqueline Peng (BE).
September 1 – Professor Katya Anaya from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte in Brazil joins the de la Fuente Lab through the Fulbright Scholar Program for a project on food preservation and safety.
May 11-17 – Numerous media outlets, including La Voz de Galicia, GCiencia, La Opinion, ABC interviewed Cesar and covered the recent announcement of his ACS Infectious Diseases Young Investigators Award.
May 16 – Marcelo publishes a new paper in Bioengineering & Translational Medicine describing the previously undisclosed antiplasmodial and anticancer properties of venom from wasps.
May 8 – Lucia Ageitos and Cesar de la Fuente published an article in the Spanish newspaper La Opinion discussing the challenges of COVID-19 for science and our society as a whole.
October 31 – Cesar gave a keynote lecture at the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers Young Investigators Award.
October 29-30 – Cesar was invited to be the chair at the AlChE Annual Meeting – Microbes at Biomedical Interfaces Topical Conference in Orlando, FL.
October 25 – Cesar was invited to give a talk at the Penn Institute of Immunology RIP Seminar Series.
October 14 – Cesar was selected by the editors of the Journal of Molecular Biology as one of the most remarkable early career researchers able to inspire and shape the direction of their respective fields.
October 10 – Cesar was invited to give a talk at I International Microiota Conference in A Coruna.
December 7 – Cesar is invited to give a talk at the 6th Annual Meeting of the Boston Area Antibiotic Resistance Network. The Starr Center 185 Cambridge St, Boston, MA, USA.
November 16-17 – Cesar is invited to give the Keynote Address at the XLV Reunión Anual SOGAPAR. Ferrol, Galicia, Spain.
November 7-8 – Cesar is invited to give a talk at the Penn 5th Microbiome Symposium. University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA, USA.
October 18 – Cesar is invited to give a talk at the Microbial Systems Seminar Series at MIT. Cambridge, MA, USA.
October 11 – Cesar is invited to give a talk at the Penn Psychiatry Research Day. Philadelphia, PA, USA.
October 9 – Cesar is invited to give a talk at the MIT Biological Engineering Retreat in Boston, MA, USA.
May 30 – Cesar is invited to give the Keynote Address, Annual Infectious Diseases Consortium (IDC) retreat at the Harvard Infectious Diseases Consortium. Harvard Medical School. Boston, MA, USA.
April – Cesar is invited to give a talk at University of Pennsylvania.
March – Cesar is invited to give a talk at Cornell University.
March – Cesar is invited to give a talk at University of Colorado Boulder.
March – Cesar is invited to give a talk at Colorado State University.
March – Cesar is invited to give a talk at University of California, Berkeley.
February – Cesar is invited to give a talk at Carnegie Mellon University.
February – Cesar is invited to give a talk at Vanderbilt University.
February – Cesar is invited to give a talk at Boston University.
January – Cesar is invited to give a talk at Boston College.
November – Cesar was featured in a Spanish documentary about antibiotic resistance. Here are the trailerand a section of the documentary.
November – Cesar is Interviewed by Dr. Stephen Hoare and Dr. Sophie Rose during the 8th International Meeting on Antimicrobial Peptides (IMAP 2017) in Copenhagen in August 2017.
November – Cesar is invited to attend the 2017 Boston Latino 30 Under 30 ceremony.
October – Cesar attends the Boston Area Antibiotic Resistance Network Annual Meeting 2017 at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
June – Our new review on precision antimicrobials is out in Current Opinion in Microbiology. Great collaboration with Francis Mojica, co-discoverer of CRISPR.
April – Our latest work describing a genetic algorithm-based computational approach for “evolving” naturally occurring peptides into “artificial” antibiotic candidates is published in Nature Communications.
April – Cesar is invited to give an Invited Seminar at Penn State University, PA, USA.
March – Cesar is selected as an ACS Nano Fellow and is invited to the first ACS Nano Kavli Futures Symposium. ACS Nano Kavli Futures Symposium. University of California-Los Angeles, CA, USA.