Cheers to our global gang! 🌍🌟 As the year draws to a close, we're giving a shoutout to the 13,000 amazing contributors on our platform. By leveraging Byron, the exchange within our company becomes more seamless, paving the way for new projects and strengthening our unity within Bayer. 🚀 Presenting this exclusive POAP as a massive thank you, because without you, this platform wouldn't be what it is. 🙌 Byron, an acronym for Bayer Open Network, is our Skills database for Bayer employees, including speed networking. We kicked off in 2018 as a True North grassroots side initiative, going live in 2020. Created by over 40 students and programming enthusiasts with the help of EY Croatia. Today, we have 13,000 registered users from 89 countries, in 293 cities. People have searched for something in Byron at least 25,000 times and engaged in 31,000 1:1 Speed network meetings. http://go/byron Looking ahead, we're thrilled about the future and the prospect of our community growing even larger. Can't wait for more collaborations and successes together in the coming year! 🎉✨ Art created by Lena Schermer

Machine learning is a powerful tool that is increasingly being applied to a wide range of sectors and applications, from healthcare and medicine, to finance and marketing, to manufacturing and logistics. It is expected to drive productivity gains, enable innovation, and improve quality and efficiencies in many industries. We as a pharmaceutical company are constantly looking for new ways to improve our research and development pipeline so we can deliver innovative products and therapies that will provide patients with better treatment options. Machine learning offers many opportunities to improve processes and accelerate the discovery of new therapies, and we will continue to invest in this powerful tool to drive future advances in drug development. Our group, Machine Learning Research (MLR), has a proven track record in the field covering the areas of cell painting, large language modelling of proteins, and small molecule research. In this poster we give a broad overview over our projects and collaborations both internally and externally as well as showcasing our direct impact on the R&D pipeline. Artwork created using Stable Diffusion.

At Language of Life, LoL, we combine state-of-the-art machine learning models, bioinformatics and expert knowledge to understand and design large biomolecules (RNA, DNA, Proteins), helping deliver the best drug, faster and cheaper, to address our patients’ needs. Our objectives are, 1) Drug the undruggable 2) Target any modality 3) Efficient Dry lab – Wet lab loops 4) Understand Patient & Disease