Friday March 27, 11am EDT
Biopharma teams routinely face high-stakes prioritization decisions, including which targets to advance, which biomarkers to pursue and which clinical strategies to implement. While data availability continues to increase, many organizations lack a structured, transparent process for translating evidence into consistent and defensible decisions. This webinar examines how a decision-support tool can improve the rigor and clarity of prioritization decisions.
Traditional approaches such as multi-criteria decision analysis and weighted scorecards are widely used but often rely on subjective weighting, inconsistent criteria and simplified scoring systems that may not adequately reflect uncertainty. As a result, decision processes can become difficult to defend, challenging to audit and prone to internal debate.
This webinar will present a novel structured decision-support tool that replaces arbitrary scoring with transparent, repeatable comparisons. The tool organizes available evidence, supports consistent evaluation across alternatives and generates outputs with a clear and auditable rationale. Rather than compressing uncertainty into a single composite score, the tool makes underlying assumptions and evidence drivers explicit, enabling stakeholders to understand what influences a ranking and what conditions could alter an outcome.
Attendees will learn how structured decision environments can support cross-functional alignment, improve confidence in portfolio and trial strategy decisions and strengthen governance without requiring extensive system changes. Practical use cases will be discussed, including portfolio prioritization, target selection, biomarker strategy and clinical trial optimization.
Register for this webinar to learn how a decision-support tool can strengthen defensibility, transparency and consistency in biopharma decision-making.
Speaker
Juan Felipe Beltrán Lacouture, PhD, Senior Director of AI, Machine Learning & Innovation, BullFrog AI
Juan Felipe Beltrán is Senior Director of AI, Machine Learning & Innovation at BullFrog AI, where he leads development of AI systems that transform fragmented clinical trial data into actionable intelligence for pharmaceutical decision-makers. Previously, he developed protein sequencing algorithms at Quantum-Si, with work published in Science. Juan holds a PhD in Computational Biology from Cornell and specializes in making advanced analytics auditable, repeatable and operationally useful for cross-functional drug development teams.
Who Should Attend?
This webinar will appeal to:
- Clinical Development, Clinical Operations and Trial Strategy leaders
- Translational Medicine, Biomarkers and Precision Medicine teams
- Portfolio Strategy, R&D Governance and Program Management
- Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Data Science and AI leads
- BD, Diligence and Research Strategy stakeholders who rely on prioritization outputs
What You Will Learn
Attendees will gain insight into:
- Why traditional multi-criteria decision analysis scorecards fail in real organizations and how to avoid “spreadsheet theater”
- How structured AI agent workflows can turn messy evidence into consistent, auditable decisions
- How to interpret robustness: what drives a ranking and what would flip it
- How to run a lightweight pilot and measure impact