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Katja Scheidler presents research on intestinal microbiota and bloodstream infections at DGHO 2026

At the DGHO 2026 annual meeting in Vienna, Katja Scheidler presented doctoral research on intestinal bacterial patterns and early bloodstream infections after allogeneic stem cell transplantation. The project sets routine stool cultures from University Medicine Essen next to sequencing measurements from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. The two recordings describe related biology. They are not the same assay, and the comparison is observational.

LinkedIn post · Congress · DGHO Jahrestagung 2026

AML im Fokus, with Felicitas Thol and Amin Turki

Five-episode German-language series with Felicitas Thol and Amin Turki, hosted by Friedrich Overkamp. The episodes cover AML diagnostics and first treatment planning, therapy for fit and unfit patients, supportive care, measurable residual disease, and clinical studies including AI. Listen on the series page.

Stefano Polizzi at the Essen Tuesday seminar

Stefano Polizzi, from Bologna, speaks on what physicians can learn from physicists. Tuesday seminar of the Faculty of Medicine, 5 May 2026 at 12:00, lecture hall of the administration building, Hufelandstraße 55, Essen.

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Review on big data and AI in transfusion medicine

First-author review in Vox Sanguinis. The same public post points to the AI sessions at the ASFA and WAA 2026 annual meeting in Denver.

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CBTH class of 2026

Amin Turki is supporting the 2026 CBTH class, a programme of the European Hematology Association and EMBL-EBI. Applications for 2027 open in September.

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JMIR paper on clinical embeddings for retrieval-augmented generation

With colleagues at IKIM, a development and evaluation study on fine-tuning clinical embedding models to improve retrieval-augmented generation in health care.

Nature Communications paper on leukemia laboratory AI

International testing and refinement of AI algorithms predicting acute leukemia subtypes from routine laboratory data.

Press release · Universität Duisburg-Essen · Press release · St. Elisabeth Gruppe · Post · X

JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics paper on tumor ICD coding

With colleagues at IKIM, work on self-hosted large language models for automated tumor ICD coding of real-world pathology reports.

VJHemOnc interview on MRD in AML and the HARMONY Alliance

Amin Turki discusses measurable residual disease as a risk factor and possible surrogate endpoint, and ongoing HARMONY Alliance work. This interview does not make him first author of the surrogacy analysis.

SOHO 2025 interviews on AI in transplant care

Two VJHemOnc interviews with Amin Turki from SOHO 2025 in Houston, on digital innovation in transplant care and on real-time AI decision support.

VJHemOnc · AI and digital innovation · VJHemOnc · real-time decision support

SOHO Insider on the 2025 AI sessions

Ahead of SOHO 2025, SOHO Insider named Amin Turki’s session “AI Agents Transforming Care in Bone Marrow Transplantation.” He described most such AI tools as still experimental and not yet medical devices.

EHA 2025 plenary on unsupervised AML classification

Plenary abstract session at EHA 2025 in Milan, 12–15 June, on unsupervised classification of acute myeloid leukemia. This is a conference presentation, not a journal article.

BRYCK special prize for Alphademia

At the University of Duisburg-Essen idea competition, Katja Scheidler received the BRYCK special prize for Alphademia, a proposal for a visual way to explore scientific literature. The prize is a six-month stipend with office space and mentoring. Alphademia is an idea at that stage, not a finished product.

Wissenschaftspreis of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Gesellschaft für Innere Medizin

Hospital announcement of the 2024 Wissenschaftspreis of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Gesellschaft für Innere Medizin, awarded for the data-driven grading of acute graft-versus-host disease.

ASH 2024 oral on leukemia classification from routine labs

Amin Turki presented an oral abstract at the 66th ASH Annual Meeting on international testing of a machine-learning algorithm that classifies acute leukemia from routine laboratory results. The later journal article is listed separately.

ASH 2024 workshop on AI and red-cell quality

At the 66th ASH Annual Meeting, Amin Turki spoke on large-scale data and AI for red blood cell quality assessment and precision transfusion medicine.

Data-driven grading of acute graft-versus-host disease

The group’s Nature Communications paper on data-driven grading of acute GVHD, with a faculty press release from the University of Duisburg-Essen.

Press release · Universität Duisburg-Essen · Paper · Nature Communications

EHA Congress 2023, HARMONY Alliance update

At EHA 2023 in Frankfurt, Amin Turki presented for the HARMONY Alliance on the power of big data to improve treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia. The talk shown is dated 11 June 2023.