Doha: A group of six delegates who are precision medicine experts from the United Kingdom visited Qatar Biobank, part of QF-RDI, recently. Qatar Biobank team led by Dr. Nahla Afifi, Director of Qatar Biobank, took them on a tour to show the latest equipment and technologies Qatar Biobank is working with to guarantee the best quality standards complying with being...
***The deadline for applications for IMAGINE IF has now been extended to 9th March so there is still time to apply for this exciting programme. ***You can refer founders who might benefit from the programme via this link IMAGINE IF! 2022 – Founder Referral (airtable.com) Applications are now open for the Innovation Forum’s IMAGINE IF! accelerator programme. This year IF...
Research involving the Turing is using AI to extract invaluable information about patients’ individual journeys The development of new and effective drugs, health services and policies requires close cooperation between clinical researchers, the pharmaceutical industry and patients. For this reason, regulators worldwide, including the US Food and Drug Administration and the European Medicines Agency, are pushing for patients and their...
Barts Life Sciences’ CAP-AI fellow Dayem Ullah and principal investigators Claude Chelala and Hemant Kocher have published a new paper in the BMC cancer journal on their project analysing the temporality of clinical factors associated with pancreatic cancer using linked electronic health records. The full article can be found here: https://bmccancer.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12885-021-09014-w Abstract Background Pancreatic cancer risk is poorly quantified in...
An exciting opportunity to be involved at the cutting edge of life sciences innovation in east London. Barts Life Sciences is Barts Health NHS Trust’s and Queen Mary University of London’s programme for using research, innovation and technologies to transform health and care services. This covers a broad range of activities from discovery science, product development and testing, and the...
Barts Life Sciences CAP-AI principal investigator Dr Samantha Gordon talks about the importance of including every race in artificial intelligence projects in the first video of this exciting new series by London & Partners, London’s business growth and destination agency: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/london-%26-partners_london-health-innovation-through-diversity-activity-6871410217381318656-q0Z3
About the programme Overview Run by Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) and the UK Health Data Research Alliance (the ‘Alliance’) in partnership with 10,000 Black Interns initiative, our Health Data Science Black Internship Programme provides an exciting new endeavour for early career Black data scientists who are currently heavily under-represented within the health data science. Our Health Data Science Black Internship Programme is just...
An exciting opportunity for a healthcare data scientist – the post holder will support cross regional data analysis for a project which is enabling regional, acute hospital admissions data to support vaccine safety research. To enable surveillance and research on the COVID-19 vaccination programme and other rare events there is a critical need for rapid, near real time and more...
In an effort to encourage more young people to work for the NHS, Barts Life Sciences, a joint research programme led by Barts Health NHS Trust and Queen Mary University of London, have opened a new training facility for health care and life sciences in east London in partnership with Newham College. The facility – known as the Barts Health...
Barts Life Sciences is recruiting for a digital fellow for our programme of AI and machine learning projects, CAP-AI. This project, ThyrAI, will develop automatic interpretation of thyroid biopsy specimen slides for automated diagnosis using machine and deep learning approaches. Computer programs can then be devised for feature extraction from image data and feeding of this information to classifiers for...
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