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Jun 20, 2026

Open Data Resource Pack Published

A new CPDSE Open Data Resource Pack is now available, including curated datasets, starter notebooks, and teaching not...

 Jun 13, 2026

Student Mentor Network Open for Registration

Registration is now open for the CPDSE Student Mentor Network, connecting students with researchers and professionals...

 Jun 6, 2026

Guest Lecture Series Announced for Autumn

CPDSE is launching a new guest lecture series featuring speakers from academia, healthcare, and industry.

May 30, 2026

Teaching Materials Repository Updated

The CPDSE educational repository has been updated with new notebooks, assignments, and facilitator notes for classroo...

 May 23, 2026

New Partnership Programme Launched

CPDSE has launched a new partnership programme to strengthen collaboration between academia and industry around pharm...

 Apr 20, 2026

Welcome to the new CPDSE website

We have launched our new website, built with Jekyll and hosted on GitHub Pages. This makes it easier for the whole CP...

 Apr 14, 2026

Workshop: Introduction to Python for Pharmaceutical Scientists

Join us for a hands-on, two-day workshop introducing Python programming in the context of pharmaceutical data analysi...

 Apr 7, 2026

New Curriculum Module: Machine Learning in Drug Development

CPDSE is launching a new open-access curriculum module on machine learning applications in drug development, availabl...

Events

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ConvergenceTalks

Friday talks where pharma meets data science.

A bi-weekly 30-minute talk series — Fridays at 9:00–9:30 — bringing researchers, clinicians, and industry voices together around the intersection of pharmaceutical science and data science. Free to attend, in person or online.

19 Talks delivered

since Jun 2025

23 Speakers featured

incl. co-presenters

19 Institutions

BE, DE, DK, NO, UK

9 External speakers

outside UCPH

Topics across the series

AI & ML 6 Drug & peptide design 6 Clinical & epidemiology 5 Data infrastructure & open science 3 Education & AI in teaching 1 Computational & biophysics 3

Next up

Upcoming talks

  • Flipped Classrooms and Mild Academic Chaos

    Casper Steinmann · CPDSE, SDU

  • Rammerne for gAI i undervisningen på KU

    Martin Ibsen & Ulla Bomhøj · COBL, UCPH

  • Lena Friberg

    Title to be announced

Speak at a future Friday

Want to give a talk?

We're always looking for speakers — academic, clinical, or industry — whose work sits somewhere on the pharma × data-science axis. Reach out and we'll find a date that works.

Email Jeppe Hartmann

Available speaking slots

The archive

Previous talks

  1. Real-Time Guidance for Skin Cancer Surgery with Mass Spectrometry and Machine Learning

    Lauritz Falkow Brorsen · Department of Pharmacy, UCPH

    AI & MLComputational & biophysics

  2. Teaching with AI in Higher Education: Health and Medical Sciences Examples

    Mikkel Marfelt · ChatTutor

    Education & AI in teaching

  3. Computer-based peptide design at Zealand Pharma

    Octav Caldararu & Rasmus Leth · Zealand Pharma

    Drug & peptide design

  4. Computational strategies for assessing the off-target potential of siRNAs and CRISPR gRNAs

    Jan Gorodkin · Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, UCPH

    Drug & peptide design

  5. From snakebite antivenoms to oncology biologics

    Andreas H. Laustsen-Kiel · Section for Biologics Engineering, DTU Bioengineering

    Drug & peptide design

  6. From Complex Biology to Clinical Decisions: Integrating Mechanistic Models, Omics Insights, and MIDD

    Jane Knöchel · CPDSE, UCPH

    CPDSE Clinical & epidemiologyComputational & biophysics