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Barts Life Sciences is recruiting for a digital fellow

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...

OPTIMA: Improving treatment for patients with prostate, breast and lung cancer through artificial intelligence

Professors Claude Chelala and Louise Jones from Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London, are part of a €21.3 million public-private research programme that will seek to use artificial intelligence (AI) to improve care for patients with prostate, breast and lung cancer. The aim of the research project, named OPTIMA (Optimal Treatment for Patients with Solid Tumours in Europe Through Artificial intelligence), is to design, develop and...

Barts Life Sciences is recruiting for a data warehouse manager

An exciting opportunity has arisen to work as part of our precision medicine team at Barts Life Sciences.  More information and how to apply can be found here: http://jobs.bartshealth.nhs.uk/job/UK/London/London/Barts_Health_NHS_Trust/Administrative_Clerical/Administrative_Clerical-v3441257?_ts=24451 Closing date: 12th September

AI revolution at Barts Health NHS Trust could help thousands of diabetes patients avoid leg and foot amputations

Clinithink artificial intelligence software takes just weeks to sift through data that would take a human more than a century – enabling quicker treatment that could save limbs The Clinithink software analysed 14.2 million medical records and notes to identify patients with diabetic foot disease. A new AI technology being trialled at a major NHS hosptial trust could transform treatment...

Barts Life Sciences CEO Professor Sir Mark Caulfield to give keynote address at SEHTA MedTech conference October 2021

Barts Life Sciences and SEHTA are delighted to announce that Professor Sir Mark Caulfield, CEO of Barts Life Sciences will be the keynote speaker at the SEHTA 2021 International MedTech Expo & Conference. About the conference: Friday 8th October 2021, Hilton London Tower Bridge Hotel www.sehtamedtechexpo.co.uk The SME focused healthcare event driving collaborations between business, care, clinicians & academics Improving...

AI predicts diabetes risk by measuring fat around the heart

A team led by researchers from Queen Mary University of London has developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool that is able to automatically measure the amount of fat around the heart from MRI scan images. Using the new tool, the team was able to show that a larger amount of fat around the heart is associated with significantly greater...

New Covid-19 vaccine trial opens to recruitment at Barts Health

A clinical trial testing a new Oxford / AstraZeneca vaccine against Covid-19 has opened to recruitment at Barts Health NHS Trust. Volunteers are needed to take part in the study (a phase II/III clinical trial), which is led by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca and supported by the National Institute of Health Research. The trial aims to test the...