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What do you do at ISAS, Lennart?

What fascinates you about your work as a software engineer? And and Why are you engaged in the works council? Lennart Kowitz answers these and other questions in ISAS Kompakt.

Dorit Günther appointed to the ISAS Executive Board

Günther will assume the role of Chief Financial Officer of ISAS.

Valuable Connections: Dr Julia Lill

Dr Julia Lill conducted research at ISAS from 2020 to 2021. She is now a Senior Scientist in the Cancer Immunology team at BioNTech in Cambridge (USA). The immunologist reports on how her time at ISAS brought her to this field of research and the relevance of a functional network in the ISAS compact series ‘Valuable Connections’.

Xiaowei Xu Will Join ISAS as a Humboldt Fellow

As a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Prof Dr Xiaowei Xu will be conducting research at ISAS from February 2025. In this interview, he talks about his work on artificial intelligence in health research and what he plans to do in Dortmund.

PODCAST »NACHGEFORSCHT – DIE LIVESCHALTE INS LABOR« Episode 10: Resource Awareness in Biomedical Image Analysis

Dr Jianxu Chen heads the junior research group AMBIOM - Analysis of Microscopic BIOMedical Images at ISAS. In the first English-language episode of »NACHGEFORSCHT - DIE LIVESCHALTE INS LABOR«, he talks about his path from mathematics to the life sciences and how he wants to make the analysis of biomedical data more sustainable - on many levels.

Valuable Connections: Prof Dr René Zahedi

Prof Dr René Zahedi headed a junior research and later regular research group at ISAS from 2008 to 2017. He now lives, conducts research and teaches in Canada - the research network from his time at ISAS, however, continues to accompany the scientist in his work. Zahedi is one of the colleagues who will provide an insight into the valuable connections within and outside the institute in the following weeks and months.

Using the Russian Doll Principle to Analyse Biological Structures

In the “AI-assisted imaging of large tissues” project, several ISAS research groups are working on combining various microscopic and mass spectrometric methods. Much like looking at a Russian doll, the team looks deeper into the biological structures of a sample with each step.

AI in Healthcare: Why Is it Better to Think Small Instead of Big?

Sustainability is an important topic when it comes to artificial intelligence in health research. A group of international researchers, including from ISAS, has been working on this topic and published a Perspective in Nature Machine Intelligence. In the interview, Prof Dr Yiyu Shi talks about the resource problem and possible solutions.

Valuable Connections: Dr Saskia Venne

Dr Saskia Venne completed her doctorate at ISAS from 2012 to 2016. Today she is a team leader at Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma. In this interview, she is the first to provides an insight into the valuable connections in- and outside the institute that current and former ISAS researchers will be reporting on in ISAS Kompakt over the coming weeks.