Congratulations to Professor Nasir Rajpoot!

Cancer Research UK is funding a study to examine the use of machine learning to assist pathologists and improve the early detection of oral cancer.

"We are very excited to work on this project with Dr Khurram and his team at Sheffield. Early detection of cancer is a key focus area of research in our lab and this award by CRUK adds to the portfolio of research at the TIA lab on early detection of cancer.

The pilot project will pave the way towards the development of a tool that can help identify pre-malignant changes in oral dysplasia, crucial for the early detection of oral cancer. Successful completion of this project carries significant potential for saving lives and improving patient healthcare provision." -- Professor Nasir Rajpoot

Please see here for further information

Join us in the exciting 'Beat the Pathologist' Competition to learn exciting ways to annotate and explore digital pathology! Follow the link for more information & registration.

Opening 17/10/20

Closing 16/11/20

There are three categories:

Up to year 6 (primary)/ Y7-Y11 (secondary)/ Y12-Y13 (Sixth Form)

Prizes are awarded to the top three scorers in each category.

Welcome to the competition! This competition has been created for children to experiment and learn exciting ways to annotate.

Please follow the link here for further information.

There are three main levels:

1. Mild
2. Hot
3. Spicy

We welcome Adam Shephard as a new postdoc in the lab working on ANTICIPATE, our CRUK funded project on early detection of oral cancer (1 Oct 2020)

Welcome to Amina Asif and Gozde Gunesli who have joined us as a postdoc Research Fellow (on the MRC funded project PredicTR2) and a PG research student, respectively (1 July 2020)

Congratulations to Shan Raza who has recently had his jointly first-authored paper on the TRACERx lung cancer trial published in Nature Medicine.

Please follow this link for more information.

We were delighted to host the last ECDP Congress at the scenic Warwick Campus.

For more details please follow this link.

We are delighted to announce the award of a Cancer Research UK (CRUK) Early Detection grant in the amount of £406K to Dr Ali Khurram (Sheffield University) and Prof Nasir Rajpoot for research on developing Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms to predict malignant transformation of oral epithelial dysplasia.

Please follow this link for more details

We would like to let you know that there are 4 postdoc positions available in our group on the development and optimization of deep learning based algorithms for the analysis of pathology images, with applications to early diagnosis and personalized treatment of cancer.

If you would like to learn more about them, please follow the links:

Research Fellow

Research Fellow

Research Fellow

Senior Research Fellow

We are delighted to share the following good news about the award of a CRUK grant to Fayyaz and his pathologist colleague from the Royal Brompton hospital in London for research on ML for early detection of mesothelioma.

Please follow this link for further details.

TIA team's submission led by Simon Graham to the MoNuSaC challenge contest tops the leaderboard.

Simon will be presenting the method details at the ISBI online conference 3.30pm London UK time on 3rd of April.

Results of our simulation study on how intelligent pooled sampling can save Covid tests is now on bioRxiv - Improving COVID-19 Testing Efficiency using Guided Agglomerative Sampling

We are delighted to inform you that Fayyaz Minhas has joined the PathLAKE project as an Assistant Professor from October 2019.

We are delighted to inform you that Shan Raza has joined the PathLAKE project as an Assistant Professor from May 2019.

Before joining Warwick, Shan held a postdoctoral position for two years at the Institute of Cancer Research, UK working on TRACERx lung project funded by Cancer Research UK (CRUK). Prior to that, he worked for three years as research fellow at Warwick computer science department on a BBSRC funded project exploring the origin of new beta cells during pregnancy. If you would like to find out more about Shan Raza, please visit our team section.

Greg Clark, former UK Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), announced that UK Research and Innovation will invest £10 million in the PathLAKE project as part of the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund.

The University of Warwick has been awarded £2.3 million of the funding, and will work with partners and experts at the lead partner University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, Royal Philips and teaching hospitals and universities at Belfast, Oxford and Nottingham in the three-year project, focussing on breast, prostate lung and colon cancers.

Read the full press release, November 2018