Description
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
