Prof. Dr. Jakob Kather

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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)