TIA Centre: News

We are delighted to announce that one of the TIA Centre’s PhD students, Manahil Raza, officially defended their PhD viva last last week - congratulations Manahil!

Manahil’s research, titled "Exploring Uni-Modal, Cross-Modal and Multi-Modal Approaches for Computational Pathology", presents a conceptual progression from uni-modal analysis to cross-modal molecular inference and finally to multi-modal integration. Her work begins with uni-modal, attention-based methods inspired by pathologists’ diagnostic workflows, enabling models to focus on diagnostically relevant regions in whole slide images (WSIs). She then develops a cross-modal approach to bridge histology and molecular profiling by predicting epigenetic information directly from histology slides, linking tissue morphology with DNA methylation patterns. Finally, she addresses survival analysis through a multi-modal framework that integrates histology WSIs, transcriptomic profiles and pathology reports to produce more comprehensive representations of disease biology and improve clinical outcome prediction. Together, these contributions reflect the evolution of computational pathology toward more integrated, biologically informed, and clinically meaningful approaches.

We were also pleased and grateful to welcome Prof Metin Nafi Gurcan, Director and Senior Associate Dean - Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Professor, General Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine (Winston-Salem) as the external examiner.

We are grateful to the University of Warwick and AstraZeneca for contributing funding to Manahil’s PhD.