Else Kröner Fresenius Center
for Digital Health

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Clinical Artificial Intelligence

Prof. Jakob N. Kather

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Ferber D, Hilgers L, Höper C et al. Towards autonomous medical artificial intelligence agents, Nature, 2026. doi: 10.1038/s41586-026-10675-5

Wekenborg MK, Michels EAM, Kurze G et al. Large language models as models of human psychopathology: A modelling study, The Lancet Digital Health, 2026. doi: 10.1016/j.landig.2026.101014

Ferber D, El Nahhas OSM, Wölflein G et al. Development and validation of an autonomous artificial intelligence agent for clinical decision-making in oncology. Nature Cancer. Published online June 6, 2025. doi: 10.1038/s43018-025-00991-6

Clusmann J, Ferber D, Wiest IC, et al. Prompt injection attacks on vision language models in oncology. Nature Communications. 2025;16(1):1239. Published 2025 Feb 1. doi:10.1038/s41467-024-55631-x
El Nahhas OSM, Loeffler CML, Carrero ZI et al. Regression-based Deep-Learning predicts molecular biomarkers from pathology slides. Nature Communications. 2024 Feb 10;15(1):1253. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-45589-1.

Electronic Tissue Technologies

Prof. Ivan Minev

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Ceto S, Elshove SA, Wu M et al. Transforming healthcare through in-body bioelectronic systems, Nature Communications, 2026. doi: 10.1038/s41467-026-71188-3

Teuku FA, Jimenez-Rodriguez CA, Biktimirova R, Hermes I, Kurth T, Pham MD, Tsurkan MV, Friedrichs J, Morgan FLC, Kleemann H, Guskova O, Freudenberg U, Fratzl P, Werner C, Tondera C, Minev IR: Conductive Hydrogels for Exogenous Sensing and Cell Fate Control; Advanced Materials, 2026. DOI: 10.1002/adma.72866
Habelt B, Afanasenkau D, Schwarz C et al. Prefrontal electrophysiological biomarkers and mechanism-based drug effects in a rat model of alcohol addiction. Translational Psychiatry. 2024 Dec 5;14(1):486. doi: 10.1038/s41398-024-03189-z.

Da Silva AC, Amadou-Douah C, Koiliari S et al. Electrochemically Driven Assembly of Chitosan Hydrogels on PEDOT Surfaces. Macromolecular Materials and Engineering, 2023. doi: 10.1002/mame.202300263.

Da Silva AC, Wang J, Minev IR. Electro-assisted printing of soft hydrogels via controlled electrochemical reactions. Nature Communications. 2022 Mar 15;13(1):1353. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-29037-6.

Medical Device Regulatory Science

Prof. Stephen Gilbert

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Freyer O, Buch S, Bassily-Marcus A, Zenker S et al. The landscape of artificial intelligence-enabled medical devices in the EU and the US intended for intensive care units, npj Digital Medicine, 2026. doi:10.1038/s41746-026-02609-2

Mathias R, Schmitt A, Campos M, Vasey B et al. Evaluation of human factors-related risks in AI-enabled medical devices: A practical guide, NEJM AI, 2026. doi: 10.1056/AIpc2501297

Ostermann M, Freyer O, Verhees FG, Kather JN, Gilbert S. If a therapy bot walks like a duck and talks like a duck then it is a medically regulated duck, npj Digital Medicine, 2025. doi: 10.1038/s41746-025-02175-z

Mathias R, Vasey B, Chalkidou A, et al. Safe AI-enabled digital health technologies need built-in open feedback, Nature Medicine, 2025. doi: 10.1038/s41591-024-03397-6

Gilbert S, Mathias R, Schönfelder A et al. A roadmap for safe regulation-compliant Living Labs for AI and digital health development, Science Advances, 2025. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adv7719

Freyer O, Wiest IC, Kather JN, Gilbert S. A future role for health applications of large language models depends on regulators enforcing safety standards. Lancet Digital Health. 2024 Sep;6(9):e662-e672. doi: 10.1016/S2589-7500(24)00124-9.

Medical Nanotechnology

Prof. Larysa Baraban

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Peng X, Song L, Mruga D et al. Soft, degradable, and magnetic microcarriers for encapsulation and guided transport of drugs and 3D spheroids, Advanced Materials, 2026. doi: 10.1002/adma.73735

Peng X, Janićijević Ž, Loureiro LR et al. Microphysiological solid tumor models in hydrogel beads for CAR T cell immunotherapy evaluation, Advanced Science, 2025.doi: 10.1002/advs.202508267.

Nguyen-Le TA, Neuber C, Cela I, et al. Toward Personalized Immunotherapeutic Drug Monitoring with Multiplexed Extended-Gate Field-Effect-Transistor Biosensors, Small Science, 2025. doi: 10.1002/smsc.202400515

Janićijević Ž, Huang T, Bojórquez DIS et al. Design and development of transient sensing devices for healthcare applications, Advanced Science, 2024. doi: 10.1002/advs.202307232

Baek E, Das NR, Cannistraci CV, et al. Intrinsic plasticity of silicon nanowire neurotransistors for dynamic memory and learning functions, Nature Electronics, 2020. doi: 10.1038/s41928-020-0412-1

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