AI can help classify brain tumors in minutes instead of weeks: Moritz Gerstung & collaborators have developed Hetairos, an AI system that identifies 102 molecular brain tumor subtypes from routine tissue sections ~12 minutes after digitization. 📰Now out in Nature Cancer! www.dkfz.de/en/news/pres...

AI Diagnoses Brain Tumors in Minutes Instead of Weeks

Experts in Heidelberg have developed an AI system that can classify brain tumors with unprecedented accuracy using standard microscopic tissue sections. Using digitized standard stains, the system ide...

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The next talk in the #AIinLife Seminar Series is hosted @dkfz.bsky.social! Come meet the speaker at TP3 in Heidelberg!

ELLIS Unit Heidelberg@ellisheidelberg.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Up next is another great talk as part of our #AIinLife Seminar Series: 💡 Clinical Risk Scores, Causality & Competing Events with Autoregressive Transformers 🧠 Rajesh Ranganath (NYU) 📍 DKFZ Heidelberg - TP3 or Zoom 📅 19 June 2026 | 11:00 CET 🔗 More information: www.ai-life-delta.com/news-events-...

Interested in working at the intersection of #data, #AI & #cancer research? The DKFZ International PhD Program is hiring! From a Digital Oncology perspective, we’re especially interested in candidates who want to apply computational & data-driven approaches to oncology. 👉 apply here: t1p.de/hl56b

Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ)@dkfz.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Dreaming of a career in cancer research? Join the International PhD Program at DKFZ - Germany’s largest biomedical research center. Explore #cancerresearch including #cancerbiology, #bioinformatics, #epidemiology & #medicalphysics. The Summer Selection is open now 👉 apply here: t1p.de/hl56b

great interview - worth watching the linked video 🎬! Happy to have @moritzgerstung.bsky.social on the board of the Digital Oncology Cross Topic, where he helps shape and strengthen AI research in oncology beyond his own working group @dkfz.bsky.social.

EMBL-EBI@ebi.embl.org · 9mo ago

From showing that leukemia is 11 different diseases to developing an AI that can predict the risks of 1000 diseases, our alumnus @moritzgerstung.bsky.social is pushing the boundaries of AI and bioinformatics. www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/p...

Fresh off the press in 2026! Interested in the challenge of how to advance from descriptive atlases to causal mechanisms and counterfactuals? 🔬 Take a look at our recent perspective: "Interpretation, extrapolation and perturbation of single cells"! (rdcu.be/eXeDY)

Interpretation, extrapolation and perturbation of single cells

Nature Reviews Genetics - Causal and mechanistic modelling strategies, which aim to infer cause–effect relationships, provide insights into cellular responses to perturbations. The authors...

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Two of the world’s most highly cited researchers are affiliated with the Digital Oncology Cross Topic - congratulations to @oliverstegle.bsky.social & Florian Büttner! Check out the full list here: clarivate.com/highly-cited...

Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers 2025

The Highly Cited Researchers 2025 list identifies and celebrates individuals who have demonstrated significant and broad influence in their fields of research. Through rigorous selection criteria and ...

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Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ)@dkfz.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Zehnmal Spitzenklasse: Auch 2025 gehören Forschende aus dem DKFZ bzw. den gemeinsamen Brückenabteilungen wieder zum führenden ersten Prozent der weltweit meistzitierten Wissenschaftler:innen ihrer Fachgebiete. Herzlichen Glückwunsch! 👏 ➡️ t1p.de/vd9ov

How the biological clock ticks in the female reproductive tract - Breakthrough of the Year Award 2025 for Ângela Gonçalves 👏 @afilimon.bsky.social #FallingWalls #ScienceSummit25 t1p.de/8fbxy

How the biological clock ticks in the female reproductive tract - Breakthrough of the Year Award 2025 for Ângela Gonçalves

Endometriosis, menopause, ovarian cancer – still poorly researched and often misdiagnosed. Ângela Gonçalves combines AI, molecular biology, and clinical findings to develop non-invasive tools for earl...

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Exciting new framework from the Stegle group, built together with Florian Büttner’s lab - great example of how our close ties within the Digital Oncology network foster innovation!

Stegle Lab@steglelab.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Are you using any of our factor models, such as MOFA? 🛵 You might’ve found it challenging to tailor them to your specific use cases - not anymore! Introducing MOFA-FLEX: a flexible, modular factor analysis framework designed for customizable modeling across diverse multi-omics data scenarios. 1/n

Thrilled to welcome Jonas Huebotter (ETH Zurich) to our heidelberg.ai seminar series. He will guide us through the world of test-time training in which the model is adapted for each new input during the prediction phase - unlocking powerful new applications! Sign up: www.meetup.com/heidelberg-a...

Honored to host Stanford Professor Dr. Curtis Langlotz in the NCT Data Science Seminar! This is a great opportunity to hear from one of the most influential voices shaping the future of medical AI, developing ML methods to detect disease & eliminate diagnostic errors. Register here: lnkd.in/eJDwtBU9

We’re thrilled to welcome Yuki Asano, Professor at the University of Technology Nuremberg and head of the Fundamental AI (FunAI) Lab, to our heidelberg.ai / NCT Data Science Seminar series on May 13th at 5 pm in Heidelberg (INF280 Seminar Rooms K1+K2) for an in-person event.

🚠 #AI in Altitude - a high-flying start for Digital Oncology@DKFZ with NCT & DKTK partners! We gathered at the scenic Königstuhl for a retreat packed with energy, ideas & collaboration. From AI for data management to a translation task force, lots of science & strategy: excited for what’s ahead!💡🧠💻

Ready to turn vision into reality! ✅ Our 5 key pillars are set to add value to #DKFZ & the wider #DataScience community. By focusing on community, capacity-building, infrastructures, building bridges, and applying #AI in targeted domains, we're paving the way for #innovation and #collaboration 🚀

Welcome to the Cross Topic for Digital Oncology @dkfz.bsky.social! We're home to >350 data scientists. By uniting data science & cancer research, we address critical infrastructure & methodological needs to shape the future of #AI in #medicine💡 #DigitalOncology #CancerResearch #DataScience