ishanu chattopadhyay

Asst Professsor of Medicine

 

 

ishanu@uchicago.edu

ishanu@paraknowlede.ai

Emergenet

Stamping out pandemics before the first human infection

Can we predict future mutations?

Can we define the "edge of emergence"?

Can we design countermeasures that are future proof?

Digital Twins for complex systems

Chattopadhyay, Ishanu, Kevin Wu, Jin Li, and Aaron Esser-Kahn. "Emergenet: Fast Scalable Pandemic Risk Assessment of Influenza A Strains Circulating In Non-human Hosts." (2023). Under Review in Nature

PREEMPT

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"NA":"MNPNQKIITIGSVSLIIATICFLMQIAILVTTVTLHFKQHDCNSSSNNQVMLCEPIIIERNKTEIVYLTNTTVEKEICPKPAEYRNWSKPQCNIAGFAPFSKDNSIRLSAGGDIWVTREPYVSCDLDKCYQFALGQGTTLNNRHSNDTVHDRTPYRTLLMNELGVPFHLGTRQVCVAWSSSSCHDGKAWLHVCITGDDNNATASFIYNGRLVDSVVSWSKNILRTQESECVCINGTCTVVMTDGSASGKADTRILFIVEGKIIHVSKLSGSAQHVEECSCYPRYPGVRCVCRDNWKGSNRPIVDINMKDYSIVSSYVCSGLVGDTPRKTDSLSSSNCLDPNNEEGDHGVKGWAFDDGDDVWMGRTINETLRLGYETFKVIKGWSKPNSKLQTNRQVIVKGGNRSGYSGIFSVEGKNCINRCFYVELIRGRREETRVWWTSNSIVVFCGTSGTYGTGSGPDGADINLMPI"
}'
cloud function emerge_predict
{"IRAT_emergence":6.599316640549309,"IRAT_impact":6.606007439884266}
\Phi_i:\prod_{j \neq i} \Sigma_j \rightarrow \mathcal{D}(\Sigma_i)

E-Net

recursive forest

E-distance

a biologically informed, adaptive distance between strains

\theta(x,y) \triangleq \\ \mathbf{E}_i \left ( \mathbb{J}^{\frac{1}{2}} \left (\Phi_i^P(x_{-i}) , \Phi_i^Q(y_{-i})\right ) \right )

This distance is "special"

smaller distances imply a quatitatively high probability of spontaneous jump

$$J \textrm{ is the Jensen-Shannon divergence }$$

Sanov's Theorem & Pinsker's Inequality

Theorem

\left \vert \ln \frac{Pr(x \rightarrow y ) }{Pr( y \rightarrow y)} \right \vert \leqq \beta \theta(x,y)
\left \vert \ln \frac{Pr(x_a \rightarrow x_h ) }{Pr( x_h \rightarrow x_h)} \right \vert \approx 0 \\ \Rightarrow Pr(x_a \rightarrow x_h ) \approx Pr(x_h \rightarrow x_h ) \\ \color{green}\Rightarrow Pr(x_a \rightarrow x_h ) \approx 1

human strain \(x_{h}\) is "well-adapted" \(\Rightarrow Pr(x_h\rightarrow x_h) \approx 1 \)

For animal strain \(x_{a}\),  \( \displaystyle \theta(x_{a},x_{h}) \approx 0 \)

Sanov's Theorem & Pinsker's Inequality

smaller \(\theta\) implies higher risk

  • \(x_h\) is a stable human strain 
  • We estimate \(\theta(x_a,x_h)\) to be small
  • It is highly likely that \(x_h\) will jump and circulate in humans

Theorem

\left \vert \ln \frac{Pr(x \rightarrow y ) }{Pr( y \rightarrow y)} \right \vert \leqq \beta \theta(x,y)

How do we validate?

Show variants are high risk

animal strains isolated in humans

Influenza Risk Assessment Tool (IRAT) scoring for animal strains

Replicate IRAT scores*

*https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/monitoring/irat-virus-summaries.htm

  • \(x_h\) is a stable human strain 
  • We estimate \(\theta(x_a,x_h)\) to be small
  • It is highly likely that \(x_h\) will jump and circulate in humans

Emergenet:  finding emergence risk of animal strains

CDC published 24 scores in 10 years

Emergenet time: 6 seconds

IRAT: months to compute 1 score

Emergence risk of variants

Predicted IRAT scores

All are high

some are very high

BioNorad

BioNorad

shortlist

Identifying Immunological Vulnerabilities

SARS-COV2

Would it have worked in 2009?

Next Steps

More detailed wet-lab validation (without encroaching gain-of-function guidelines)

Deploying for more viruses

Escape resistant vaccine design

Emergenet

By Ishanu Chattopadhyay

Emergenet

AI in Bio-med-social problems

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