Biology and Medicine

Jaleel UCA

Biography

Dr. UCA Jaleel is a Principal Scientist at the OSPF-NIAS Drug Discovery Lab, NIAS IISc Campus Bangalore. He leads a team of drug discovery researchers who focus on various aspects of cheminformatics, including machine learning and AI-based analysis of neglected tropical diseases like TB, Malaria, and Leishmaniasis. His primary focus is in the application of machine learning and AI models in the medicinal chemistry data sets. He successfully applied ANN based machine learning models on the inconclusive molecules of the beta-lactamase bioassays of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.