Clinic Meets Data Science 2023 - Conference Report Verified listing

The 3rd edition of Clinics Meets Data Science was organized by Abdullah Kahraman (FHNW), Michael Krauthammer (USZ), and Adrian Jaeggi (UZH). Quick Facts

• June 8, 2023 at the University Hospital Zurich.
• 90 participants onsite, 150 online. Mix of academic, industrial, clinical, and international.
• 11 presentations.
• Sponsors: Biotechnet, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, URPP and the University of Zürich.

Takeaway

• The symposium showcased the ever-increasing importance of data science technologies at hospitals that help to develop new treatment options for complex diseases.

Session Highlights

• In his keynote, Prof. Björn Menze from the University Hospital Zurich presented the newest technologies for extracting knowledge from radiomics imaging data.
• Prof. Raphael Gottardo from CHUV presented how immunotherapy responses can be characterised using high-dimensional single-cell analysis.
• In another keynote, Prof. Manfred Claassen from the University Hospital Tübingen highlighted recent supervised learning techniques his group developed to identify cell population structures, transitions and spatial arrangement from single-cell sequencing data.
• Prof. Robert Gatenby from the Moffit Cancer Center in Florida showed in his keynote the importance of including evolutionary dynamics approached to control or cure metastatic cancers.
• Prof Franzisca Michor from the Dana-Faber Cancer Institute at Harvard presented recent results of her group on understanding the evolutionary processes that are driving cancer growth in glioblastoma brain cancers.

Next Event

• June 2024