Core lab
Katja Scheidler, B.Sc.
Research Assistant
IKIM, University Hospital Essen
Essen, Germany
Katja Scheidler works at IKIM where medicine meets quantitative methods, after earlier training in economics. Her doctoral research follows intestinal bacterial patterns after allogeneic stem cell transplantation and early bloodstream infection, setting routine stool cultures from Essen beside sequencing measurements from Memorial Sloan Kettering. She contributes to the group’s papers on AI in transplant care and transfusion medicine, and in 2025 received the BRYCK special prize for Alphademia, a proposal for exploring the scientific literature visually.
What they study
How intestinal bacterial patterns after allogeneic transplantation relate to early bloodstream infection, when one cohort is recorded as routine cultures and the other as sequencing.
How they study it
- Routine stool cultures from University Medicine Essen
- Sequencing-derived microbial measurements from Memorial Sloan Kettering
- Aerobic and anaerobic groupings so the two recordings can be compared, without treating them as the same assay
Projects
Selected papers
- Artificial Intelligence in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Care and Complication Management Acta Haematol 2025 — A review of AI in transplant care and complication management, written with lab co-authors.
- Fundamentals of big data and artificial intelligence in transfusion medicine Vox Sang 2026 — A primer on big data and AI in transfusion medicine, with Computational Hematology Lab affiliation on the author line.