Prof. Dr. med. Jakob Nikolas Kather is a physician and scientist. Since 2022, he has held the Chair of Clinical Artificial Intelligence at TU Dresden. After his transition to Heidelberg in October 2026, he remains affiliated with TUD and the EKFZ for Digital Health. His research is focused on applications of AI in medicine, in particular precision oncology.
Prof. Jakob N. Kather
Research Group
The research group is young, diverse and interdisciplinary. Their main tools are Artificial Intelligence and Computational Modeling. They combine these tools with a clinical perspective on cancer genomics, targeted treatment and immunotherapy. Their focus is gastrointestinal cancer, including cancer of the bowel, stomach, liver and pancreas.
The vision
is to do research that goes beyond the medical disciplines and collaboration in everyday care – physicians learn programming and researchers from computer science or technical subjects learn in return to identify and solve relevant problems in the clinic.
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