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Dr. Inês Carvalho
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Dr. Inês Carvalho

Computational Biology & AI-driven Medicine; Lisbon Institute for Advanced Systems

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Biography

Dr. Inês Carvalho is a leading figure in the next generation of AI-powered medicine, blending biology with intelligent systems. Born in Porto, Portugal, she grew up fascinated by both the human body and emerging technologies.

After completing her PhD in computational biology, she pioneered a new class of AI agents capable of continuously learning from patient data, enabling real-time health predictions and adaptive treatments. Her work focuses on:

  • 🧠 Digital twins of patients for simulation-based medicine

  • 🧬 AI interpretation of genomic data at scale

  • 📊 Autonomous clinical decision-support systems

  • 🌐 Ethical frameworks for human-AI collaboration in healthcare

She is known for bridging the gap between human intuition and machine intelligence, ensuring technology enhances—not replaces—human care.

Key Achievement

Dr. Carvalho led the creation of “Lifeflow”, an AI system that predicts disease onset years in advance by integrating lifestyle, genetic, and environmental data—transforming preventive medicine globally.

Personal Philosophy

The future of medicine is not about machines replacing doctors — it’s about intelligence amplifying humanity. When we understand the language of our own biology through AI, we don’t just treat disease… we redesign life itself.

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