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Key Takeaways from Our Team’s Participation at the World Health Forum Veneto 2024

On 21-22 March 2024, our team had the pleasure of attending the Artificial Intelligence for Medicine conference, hosted within the World Health Forum Veneto in Padova.

Our PI Prof. Barbara Di Camillo delivered an insightful talk titled “Bringing AI into clinical practice: A deep dive into the BRAINTEASER project”, where she presented our work to bring responsible AI into clinical practice. On this occasion, Professor Di Camillo was also interviewed by the prestigious Corriere della Sera, as featured in the article below.

This event was also an opportunity to present some of our group’s latest work. Our senior researchers Erica Tavazzi and Enrico Longato presented a poster titled “Improving Discrimination Performance in Artificial Intelligence Models for Rare Diseases: Strategies for Dealing with Data Scarcity”, sharing insights into strategies for enhancing predictive model performance with limited data.

This event, designed to examine the current state and explore the future of medical sciences and technologies aimed at enhancing care and life quality, was a great opportunity to network and foster new collaborations.

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Advancing ALS Research: Collaborative Efforts with Precision ALS

Recently we had the pleasure to start collaborating with Precision ALS, a research programme for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) research across Europe, which brings together ALS clinicians, data scientists, and industries to provide new insights into the understanding of this rare disease. 

This month, we attended a Precision ALS meeting in Basel, where clinical, scientific, and industry experts gathered to discuss the latest frontiers in the development and utilisation of predictive models for ALS. Together with our partners from the University of Torino, we presented our research work in the field and the new models and tools developed within the H2020 BRAINTEASER Project.

Building upon our collective knowledge of AI applied to ALS research, we aspire to bring our expertise and insights into the collaborative initiatives of Precision ALS, advancing the understanding and treatment of this multifaceted, complex disease.

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In two weeks we will attend the 19th Annual Meeting of the Bioinformatics Italian Society (BITS 2023) with 1 oral communication & 3 poster contributions

  • Oral communication: “CClens: effective and efficient differential cellular communication analysis of large-scale single-cell RNA sequencing data” (G. Cesaro, G. Baruzzo, B. Di Camillo)
  • Poster contribution: “Data-driven meta-simulation of realistic tumoral samples” (F. Longhin, E. Hazizaj, G. Baruzzo, B. Di Camillo)
  • Poster contribution: “mopo16Sweb: a cloud-based app for multi-objective optimization of bacterial 16S PCR primers” (M. Milia, N. Ferro, B. Di Camillo, G. Baruzzo)
  • Poster contribution: “From microbial ground truth network simulation to inference method benchmark” (M. Baldan, A. Rossato, M. Bellato, G. Baruzzo, B. Di Camillo)

For more details, check the conference website: https://bioinformatics.it/bits2023