About the VHIR
Here at the Vall d'Hebron Research Institute (VHIR) we promote biomedical research, innovation and teaching. Over 1,800 people are seeking to understand diseases today so the treatment can be improved tomorrow.
Research
We are working to understand diseases, to find out how they operate and to create better treatments for patients. Get to know about our groups and their lines of research.
People
People are the centre of the Vall d'Hebron Research Institute (VHIR). This is why we are bound by the principles of freedom of research, gender equality and professional attitudes that HRS4R promotes.
Clinical trials
Our work is not just basic or translational; we are leaders in clinical research. Enter and find about the clinical trials we are conducting and why we are a world reference in this field.
Progress
Our aim is to make the research carried out at the Vall d’Hebron Research Institute (VHIR) a driving force for transformation. How? By identifying new channels and solutions for the promotion of people's health and well-being.
Core facilities
We offer specialist support for researchers, internal and external alike, ranging from specific services to preparing complete projects. All this, from a perspective of quality and speed of response.
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Speaker: Dr Francesco Ciompi, Associate Professor in Computational Pathology and Research Group Leader at the Department of Pathology of Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
His main research focus is artificial intelligence for precision oncology in the area of pathology, with applications to discovery and implementation of predictive and prognostic biomarkers in immuno oncology, and computer aided diagnosis for large-scale digital pathology and multi-modal data.
As a guest lecturer at Radboud University, he has been the creator, main teacher and coordinator of the Master's course Intelligent Systems in Medical Imaging.
Dr Ciompi obtained his Master's degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Pisa in July 2006 and the Master's degree in Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence from the Computer Vision Center of the Autonomous University of Barcelona in September 2008. In July 2012, he obtained the PhD (cum laude) from the University of Barcelona. In 2013, he joined Radboudumc as a postdoctoral researcher and since 2016 he is co-leading the Computational Pathology Group of Radboudumc.
He is the receiver of several Dutch and European grants, including a prestigious VIDI personal grant from the NWO to improve immunotherapy treatment for non-small cell lung cancer, grants from the Dutch Cancer Society (KWF), leading the high-risk project PROACTING and principal investigator of the COMMITMENT project, and from the EU, leading the work package on artificial intelligence in the BIGPICTURE and the ExaMode projects, and leading development of AI for computational pathology in the IMAGIO and HEREDITARY projects.
He is the main organizer of the TIGER challenge, of the COMPAY workshop at the MICCAI conference, member of the International Immuno-Oncology Biomarker Working Group on Breast Cancer and of the editorial board of Nature Portfolio's journal Communications Medicine.
Host: Dr Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Head of group Translational Molecular Pathology (VHIR)
Register here to attend by Zoom: https://gencat.zoom.us/j/99555621177
