Digitizing Molecules To Create Novel Antibiotics
An Interview With Rising Leader Cesar de la Fuente
Executive Summary
An early childhood fascination with the natural world led Cesar de la Fuente into the fields of microbiology and immunology. A PhD from the University of British Columbia – and postdoc work at Massachusetts Institute of Technology – helped him combine computer science principles with biological processes. As the leader of a machine biology group and lab at the University of Pennsylvania, de la Fuente is working to develop new antibiotics to treat deadly bacterial infections.
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