Jakob Nikolas Kather

Prof. Jakob Nikolas Kather is a Full Professor in Clinical Artificial Intelligence at Technical University Dresden, Germany, with dual appointments in Medicine (Medical Faculty) and Computer Science. He is a senior physician in medical oncology at University Hospital Dresden and holds affiliations with the National Center for Tumor Diseases in Heidelberg. His research focuses on applying AI to precision oncology, developing deep learning methods for analyzing histopathology, radiology, and genomic data.

Education: Medical license (2016), Master of Science in Medical Physics (2016, Heidelberg University). Career highlights include postdoctoral research at German Cancer Research Center (2016–2018) and a Junior Professorship at RWTH Aachen (2021–2022).

Research interests: AI-driven biomarker discovery, multi-modal data integration, federated/swarm learning for clinical AI, and bridging medicine and data science. His lab is funded by over €6.5M from grants including ERC, DFG, and EU Horizon.

Key achievements: Over 240 publications, including high-impact work in Nature Medicine, Nature Cancer, and Gastroenterology. Awards include the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Award (2021) and Thannhauser Award (2022). Serves on editorial boards of npj Precision Oncology and Nature Reviews Gastroenterology.

Grants and collaborations: Projects like DEEP LIVER, PEARL, and EDELWEISS. Leads teams in decentralized AI, radiology core, and computational pathology. Lab members include ~30 researchers and clinicians.

Labs/Teams: Clinical AI Group at Else Kroener Fresenius Center, interdisciplinary team of biologists, clinicians, and computer scientists. Active in consortia like TANGERINE and ODELIA.