DZG seminar series "Computational topics in biomedicine": Diagnosing (blood) diseases with AI

The new seminar series “Computational topics in biomedicine” brings together the data science and AI initiatives of the German Centers for Health Research (DZG). The seminars offer the opportunity to exchange ideas with international speakers who have made significant contributions to the translational application of AI and data science.

In the next session, Prof. Carsten Marr will speak on the topic of “Diagnosing (blood) diseases with AI”.

Carsten Marr is the Founding Director of the Institute of AI for Health at Helmholtz Munich, a European center for applied artificial intelligence. His goal is to develop AI-based methods to improve the diagnosis, treatment, and understanding of diseases. After studying theoretical physics at the Technical University of Munich and the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Carsten transitioned from physics to theoretical biology. His doctoral research at the Technical University of Darmstadt focused on the architecture of biological networks and was awarded as the best dissertation of the year in the Department of Biology. Following postdoctoral positions in Munich, Bremen, and Edinburgh, Carsten founded his research group at Helmholtz Munich in 2013 and became Deputy Director of the Institute of Computational Biology. In interdisciplinary projects with life scientists and practicing physicians, he was among the first to apply deep learning to biomedical data. By training deep neural networks, he succeeded in predicting stem cell development from microscopy images and detecting leukemias in blood and bone marrow samples. For his work on researching and analyzing single-cell data, he has received several awards, including a prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant. Since July 2025, he has been Professor of AI in Hematology and Cell Therapy at Ludwig Maximilian University Munich.

Language
English

Meeting link
The seminar will take place online via Zoom.
Meeting-ID: 818 3414 2611, Passcode: 492572
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