Ana Leni Frei Ana Leni Frei, Pathology, University of Bern Ana Leni Frei does her PhD in computational pathology on cell interactions in rectal cancer. She hopes to help build AI tools that can assist pathologists to understand changes that occur in the tumor microenvironments of patients receiving neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy and hopefully understand why 20% of them do not respond to the therapy. Read the interview...
Esther Brill Esther Brill, Bern Psychiatry Services Esther Brill is a PhD student in cognitive neuroscience at the University Hospital of Old Age Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Bern. As a digital native she considers connecting technology and clinical work essential to fight ever more prevalent neurodegenerative diseases such as dementia through computerized cognition games. Read the interview...
Charlotte Kern Charlotte Kern / Verena Schöning, Inselspital Charlotte Kern and Verena Schöning use different approaches such as data mining, machine learning, and modelling and simulation studies in pharmacometrics to predict the effects of medication on diseases and thus inform clinical decision making. During the COVID-19 pandemic, their research directly contributed to improved patient care. Read the interview...
Amith Kamath Amith Kamath, ARTORG Center, Uni Bern Amith Kamath wishes to facilitate faster radiotherapy treatment for patients with glioblastoma through AI-supported therapy planning. He looks forward to translating his PhD research at the Medical Image Analysis research group of the ARTORG Center into a clinical tool through the broad entrepreneurial support he is receiving in Bern. Read the interview...
Florence Aellen Florence Aellen, Computer Science, Uni Bern Florence Aellen is the deep learning specialist at the Cognitive Computational Neuroscience Lab of the Institute of Computer Science, University of Bern. For her PhD she works with a very interdisciplinary research team to unravel interrelations between electrical brain activity and states of consciousness. Read the interview...
Song Xue Song Xue, Nuclear Medicine, Inselspital Song Xue is a biomedical postdoctoral researcher specialized in deep learning at the Inselspital. Applying artificial intelligence to nuclear medicine, Song aims to reduce radiation in diagnostic PET imaging and to personalize dose prediction for radionuclide therapy. Read the interview...
Christoph Ammon Christoph Ammon, Institute for Crimonology, Uni Bern Christoph Ammon's dissertation deals with the increasingly intertwined relationship between humans and machines in the wake of recent developments in AI technology. He discusses how responsibility can be adequately attributed, especially in medical applications, and whether it would make sense to define an AI as a functional legal entity. Read the interview...
Negin Ghamsarian Negin Ghamsarian, ARTORG Center, Uni Bern Negin Ghamsarian is a postdoctoral researcher at the ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research. She believes that self-supervised and semi-supervised deep learning can overcome current constraints in the feasibility of AI techniques for surgical video analysis to better predict postoperative complications and offer more precise surgical interventions. Read the interview...
Katharina Wilmes Katharina Wilmes, Department of Physiology, Uni Bern Katharina Wilmes is fascinated by the question how humans learn in an uncertain world. To find out, she is developing special neuroscientific models at the Institute of Physiology at the University of Bern. Read the interview...
Ekin Ermis Ekin Ermis, Radiation Oncology, Inselspital Dr. Ekin Ermis is a neuro-oncologist specialized in radiotherapy for brain tumors. She appreciates the opportunities for cancer research and innovation in Switzerland and the flat hierarchies and interdisciplinary support within the Department of Radiation Oncology. She works on improving patients' quality of life through AI automatization in radiotherapy planning. Read the interview...
