Prof. Dr. Jakob Kather
Professor of Clinical Artificial Intelligence, Else Kröner Fresenius Center for Digital Health, Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus, Technical University Dresden
Role in LiSyM-Cancer
- Partner in DEEP-HCC
- Deep learning assisted morphological analysis of HCC
- Integration of both modelling and diagnostic tools
- Harnessing the power of AI-based image analysis from standard histology for the prediction of HCC risk
Expertise
- Artificial Intelligence, Computational Modeling, Computer Vision, Computational Pathology, Machine Learning
- Applications of AI in medicine, in particular precision oncology of solid tumors
- Use of computational methods to extract actionable knowledge from clinical routine data using Deep Learning
- Predicting clinically actionable properties of tumors directly from routinely available histopathology slides
Professional Experience
- Since 2022: Full Professorship (W3) “Clinical Artificial Intelligence” at TUD Dresden University of Technology, Germany
- 2021 – 2022: Junior (Assistant) Professorship (W1 with tenure track to W2) at the Medical Faculty of RWTH University Aachen, Germany
- Since 2020: Additional affiliation at the National Center of Tumor Diseases (NCT), Heidelberg, Germany
- 2019 – 2022: Research Group Leader “Computational Oncology” at University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Germany
- 07/2018 – 05/2022: Resident Physician in Gastroenterology, Gastrointestinal Oncology, Medical Intensive Care at University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Germany
- 2016 – 2018: Resident Physician, Medical Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), Heidelberg, Germany
- 2016 – 2018: Postdoctoral Researcher, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ, “Applied Tumor Immunity”, PI: Prof. Dr. Dirk Jaeger)
Degrees
- 2021: Medical board certification for “Internal Medicine”
- 2016: Medical license granted by the State of Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany
- 2013 – 2016: Doctoral Thesis, „Vascular Biology and Tumor Angiogenesis“, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- 2016: Master of Science in Medical Physics at the Medical Faculty Mannheim of Heidelberg University, Germany
- 2009 – 2016: Medical studies at the Medical Faculty Mannheim of Heidelberg University, Germany
Honors and Awards (selection)
- 2022: Thannhauser Award by the German Society of Gastroenterology (DGVS)
- 2021: German Award for Cancer Prevention, Young Investigator Category by the Manfred Lautenschläger Foundation and the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)
- 2021: Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Award by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
- 2020: Research Award for Colorectal Cancer Prevention (Stiftung Lebensblicke, Ludwigshafen, Germany)
- 2020: Research Award of the German Society for Medical Oncology (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Internistische Onkologie, AIO)
- 2020: Theodor-Frerichs-Award of the German Society for Internal Medicine (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Innere Medizin, DGIM)