A Hands-On Workshop for Biomedical Research
HOSTED BY NESBR at TAKEDA PHARMACEUTICALS
PRESENTED BY THE DIGITAL PRECLINICAL SOCIETY (DIPS)
WHERE: TAKEDA PHARMACEUTICALS
125 Binney Street, Cambridge, MA 02142
REGISTRATION: 8:30 AM
WHEN: Tuesday, October 20, 2026 · 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
About the workshop
Generative AI is already in the daily work of biomedical research (literature, protocols, manuscripts, posters, correspondence), usually without a shared standard for how it is done well. This workshop covers that standard by demonstration. This is the day you do it yourself, on your own material, with someone in the room when it matters. You bring real work from your own desk; you leave having produced output you can defend, along with the rules and records to keep producing it after you go home.
Who this is for
• Laboratory animal veterinarians
• IACUC and IBC coordinators
• Research compliance and administration staff
• Science communications teams
• Scientists at academic and industry member institutions
No prior experience with AI tools is assumed. Skepticism is welcome and expected.
What you leave with
• A working prompt rebuilt from one of your own tasks
• A confidentiality decision rule, filled in for the material you actually handle
• A verification record you can reuse on any AI-assisted output
• One recurring task turned into a workflow with guardrails written down
How the day works
Six hands-on labs, three short breaks, and lunch. You work on your own laptop throughout. Each lab is a short setup, then you do the task, then a live walk-through of real examples from the room, including your own, if you volunteer them. The last block reverses that order: two problems from the room get solved live first, then you work yours.
Labs use Claude; the techniques transfer to other assistants, and where they don’t, the day says so and explains why. Where a lab touches a rule, the rule is named by its exact type. A policy notice, a draft guidance, a set of principles, a reflection paper, a position statement, and a binding Regulation are not interchangeable, and the day treats them accordingly.
Before you arrive
• Bring a laptop you can run an AI assistant on, and test it from that exact machine beforehand, not from a personal device you’re leaving at home.
• Confirm your institution permits the tool. Many restrict them; find out before the day, not during Lab 1.
• If your institution blocks access, come anyway and say so at registration. You’ll be paired with someone who has access: you drive the thinking and the writing, your partner drives the tool. Everything you produce is still yours.
• Bring one real task from your own desk. Not your best one. The one on top.
Presenter:
Szczepan Baran, MS, VMD
Chief Scientific Officer, Instem
Co-founder, Digital Preclinical Society
>> Read Baran’s bio