Artificial Intelligence

Brian Loyal

Author: Brian Loyal

Brian Loyal is a Senior AI/ML Solutions Architect in the Global Healthcare and Life Sciences team at Amazon Web Services. He has more than 17 years’ experience in biotechnology and machine learning and is passionate about helping customers solve genomic and proteomic challenges. In his spare time, he enjoys cooking and eating with his friends and family.

Build a drug discovery research assistant using Strands Agents and Amazon Bedrock

In this post, we demonstrate how to create a powerful research assistant for drug discovery using Strands Agents and Amazon Bedrock. This AI assistant can search multiple scientific databases simultaneously using the Model Context Protocol (MCP), synthesize its findings, and generate comprehensive reports on drug targets, disease mechanisms, and therapeutic areas.

Efficiently fine-tune the ESM-2 protein language model with Amazon SageMaker

In this post, we demonstrate how to efficiently fine-tune a state-of-the-art protein language model (pLM) to predict protein subcellular localization using Amazon SageMaker. Proteins are the molecular machines of the body, responsible for everything from moving your muscles to responding to infections. Despite this variety, all proteins are made of repeating chains of molecules called […]