SDiPath Trailblazers in AI Series – Leeat Keren

Title: Multiplexed imaging for next-generation pathology, challenges and opportunities.

Abstract: Tissues are spatially organized ecosystems that are comprised of distinct cell types, each of which can assume a variety of phenotypes defined by coexpression of multiple proteins. To underscore this complexity it is essential to interrogate cellular expression patterns within their native context in the tissue. I will describe technological and computational advancements in multiplexed imaging, discuss challenges and opportunities, and demonstrate its application to study the immune microenvironment in cancer and immune-mediated diseases.

Bio: Dr. Leeat Keren is an assistant professor in the department of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of science. She completed her Ph.D. in computational biology in the Weizmann Institute of Science in 2016 and her postdoc with Dr. Michael Angelo in Stanford University in 2020. She is an Azrieli Faculty Fellow, a recipient of the Dale F. Frey breakthrough scientist award from the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation and a recipient of the James Heineman Research Award.

Zoom link: https://unibe-ch.zoom.us/j/64244437918?pwd=ME0zc1JlTFZZMTQ5UERpZGpXY0xRdz09

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