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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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-...

Now on YouTube: Gábor Csányi on "MACE Force Field Models for the Periodic Table" This talk was an IWR, Ellis (@ellisheidelberg.bsky.social), #SIMPLAIX Joint-Colloquium. You can listen to the talk here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFD8...

IWR, EllIS, SIMPLAIX Joint-Colloquium: Gábor Csányi on MACE Force Field Models for Periodic Table

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Many thanks to IWR for hosting Prof. Gábor Csányi (MPI-P) for a joint ELLIS-SIMPLAIX-IWR event! It was great to see the Heidelberg AI ecosystem come together across institutions and disciplines for an inspiring talk on MACE force field models for the periodic table. #AIinLife #ELLIS

Excited to kickoff the new Heidelberg AI in Life Seminar Series -a joint initiative by our ELLIS Unit- with a great talk by @florianingelfinger.bsky.social speaking about deep generative modelling for antibody-based single-cell technologies in translational immunology. Stay tuned for upcoming talks!

The ELLIS Unit Heidelberg expands: With the renewal, MPIK and CIMH join as new partners - extending our research from fundamental physics to mental health, all while advancing core AI. Find out more about our network here: www.ai-life-delta.com/our-network/

Our new ELLIS Unit Heidelberg website is now online: www.ai-life-delta.com Explore our research, people, and projects at the interface of AI and life!

Our unit has been renewed!! We continue our work within ELLIS to advance AI for life - combining machine learning, large-scale data, and domain expertise. Congratulations to all! Stay tuned for more in the coming weeks!

ELLIS@ellis.eu · 5mo ago

🎉 25 ELLIS Units have been successfully extended! Following our five-year reapplication process, we celebrate the sustained excellence these Units bring to European AI research. Congratulations to all! 👏 📖 Get more details: ellis.eu/news/25-elli...

We wrapped up our in-person @elsa-ai.eu TrustworthyAI4Health 2026 Workshop at @embl.org on Monday. The workshop brought together experts and a community of enthusiastic researchers to explore pathways for building trust in AI for healthcare. A fuller write-up is coming soon!

It’s a wrap! The @elsa-ai.eu workshop on Trustworthy AI Modeling for Computational Healthcare @embl.org we co-hosted was a great success. 4 excellent keynotes, lively discussions throughout the day & a closing panel brought together a great community around #TrustworthyAI4Health! Thanks to all!

🌐 4 ELLIS researchers appointed to the UN's first global AI scientific panel. Congrats to Anna Korhonen, Bernhard Schölkopf, @elassady.bsky.social and @piotrsankowski.bsky.social on this important role shaping international AI policy. Read more: https://bit.ly/4rY8nN8 #UnitedNations #AIGovernance

great interview - check out the 🎬! We are very happy that Moritz is now part of the ELLIS Heidelberg community.

EMBL-EBI@ebi.embl.org · 8mo 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...

Looking ahead to a joined workshop with @elsa-ai.eu & EMBL on how to make AI systems in healthcare trustworthy by design - from privacy & fairness to robustness & clinical use. 📅 March 9th @ EMBL Heidelberg 📝 Poster submissions open until Jan 26 Register here: elsa-ai.eu/elsa-worksho...

A major milestone for AI research in Europe - great to look back on the first edition of EurIPS and the ELLIS UnConference 🎬

ELLIS@ellis.eu · 8mo ago

🎬 EurIPS & ELLIS UnConference aftermovie - Relive the first @euripsconf.bsky.social in Copenhagen, a community-driven, NeurIPS-endorsed milestone for Europe’s AI community. 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PaC... 📖 More: ellis.eu/news/eurips-... ⏰ Last call to host #EurIPS2026: ellis.eu/news/eurips-...

Two of the world’s most highly cited researchers are part of our ELLIS Unit - congratulations to @juliosaezrod.bsky.social & @oliverstegle.bsky.social! Check out the impressive 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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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

#AboutELLISHD We take on life’s biggest questions - from its principles to the future of healthcare. Our PIs harness big, diverse data, pioneer new tools & push science with AI. Collaboration & transdisciplinarity drives us, breakthroughs set benchmarks & we educate to rise to tomorrow’s challenges.

We recently helped hosting the Helmholtz-ELLIS Workshop on Foundation Models in Science in Berlin & today is one of our bi-weekly NCT Data Science Seminar Series talks. If you want to find out more about these reoccuring seminars & previous recorded talks, check out: www.dkfz.de/en/research/...

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The Helmholtz-ELLIS Workshop on Foundation Models in Science brought top researchers together to explore AI’s impact on e.g. materials science, genomics, and astronomy, fostering collaboration & deep discussions on key challenges like benchmarking, evaluation, and ethics. ellis.eu/news/the-hel...

#HelloWorld! This is the ELLIS Life Unit Heidelberg's new social media profile - excited to meet you! As part of @ellis.eu - the pan-European AI network of excellence - we will share its news & breakthroughs as well as our fellows & scholars': #ELLISforEurope #AI #ML #LifeScience