Marinka Zitnik is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard University with appointments at Harvard Medical School, Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and Harvard Data Science. Dr. Zitnik investigates the foundations of AI to enhance scientific discovery and to realize individualized diagnosis and treatment. Her research was recognized by numerous research and best paper awards at leading venues in artificial intelligence and medicine. Dr. Zitnik has founded Therapeutics Data Commons, a global open-science initiative to access and evaluate AI capability across therapeutic modalities and stages of therapeutic development, and serves as the faculty lead of the International AI4Science initiative.