Computational Health Center

A new ad hoc working group with the topic of “artificial intelligence in medicine” started at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BAdW). The project is planned for three years and will be executed by the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and…

The German Research Foundation (DFG, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) awarded Fabian Theis the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize – the most prestigious research award in Germany. Fabian Theis is Head of the Computational Health Center at Helmholtz…

Mohammad Lotfollahi wins the prestigious Bayer Foundation "Early Excellence in Science Award" in the category "Data Sciences" in Life Sciences for his pioneering machine learning algorithms.

Blood Bots

By leveraging the power of AI, computers can detect leukemia in blood samples – with accuracy to match their human counterparts

How do single cells communicate in a tissue? How can these interactions be modeled, while retaining information of spatial context? Researchers around Fabian Theis from Helmholtz Munich Computational Health Center and Technical University of Munich…

Fabian Theis and Ele Zeggini's interview

Over the next five years, the interdisciplinary NEUROCOV consortium will investigate the role of the host-virus interplay in the occurrence of neurological and psychiatric symptoms resulting from COVID-19 as a foundation for new treatment options.

The MDSI congratulates the awardees of the MDSI Best Paper of the Year Award 2021. Runner-up goes to first author Mohammad Lotfollahi from ICB!

In October, we kicked off our new project HOPARL at Helmholtz Munich, together with experts and scientists from the Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI), the Technical University of Munich (TUM), and the University of Würzburg.

Dr. Sarah Kim-Hellmuth, Research Group Leader at the Helmholtz Munich Institute of Translational Genomics will be awarded the Friedmund Neumann Prize 2022 for her groundbreaking work in studying the genetic influence on human gene activity.

Cardiomyopathy is not a uniform disease. Rather, individual genetic defects lead to heart failure in different ways, an international consortium with participation of Dr. Matthias Heinig, researcher at Helmholtz Munich, reports in Science.

Fabian Theis, Director of the Computational Health Center at Helmholtz Munich, has been accepted for membership in the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO). Scientists can only be invited to join EMBO on the recommendation of existing…

The Chris McGuigan Symposium took place on 22 April at Cardiff University’s Main Building. The bi-annual awards ceremony celebrates and rewards the work of three scientists who have made a substantial contribution to the field of drug discovery.

Two newly acquired ERC Advanced Grants support the cutting-edge research of Munich Helmholtz scientists Heiko Lickert and Fabian Theis. The researchers are international stars in the fields of diabetes and artificial intelligence. The funding will…

Lukas Heumos and team have won the campusSOURCE Award 2022 for cookietemple tool.

Data is not only the answer to numerous questions in the business world; the same applies to biomedical research. In order to develop new therapies or prevention strategies for diseases, scientists need more and better data, faster and faster.…

Squidpy: a scalable framework for spatial omics analysis

Single-cell data in context

Lotfollahi et al. present scArches, a method to contextualize new single-cell datasets within existing reference atlases without the need to share raw data.

Volume 40 Issue 1, January 2022