L'Hospital Vall d'Hebron completa amb èxit el primer trasplantament de pulmó del món en què no s'ha obert la caixa toràcica del pacient. Amb l'ajuda d'un robot s'extreu i introdueix l'òrgan desinflat a través d'una petita incisió ccma.cat/324/la-vall-dh…

#Breakthrough: #VallHebron hospital achieves the first fully robotic lung transplant with a new access route: the new technique has allowed replacing the traditional 30-centimetre incision in the thorax with small incisions of just a few centimetres More: vhc.cat/robotic-lung-t…

🌹📚Bon Sant Jordi a tots i totes!🐉 🌹📚Happy Sant Jordi to everyone!🐉 #SantJordiAlMón #BooksAndRoses

It's today - see you at 17:15👍🏻

Looking for uncertainty quantification in medical image segmentation? Check out our new paper published in Computer in Biology and Medicine: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Lorena Escudero Sánchez Mireia Crispin Ramona Woitek Cathal McCague James Brenton Evis Sala Leonardo Rundo

👀 Guess who we spotted on page 42 of the The Alan Turing Institute 2022-23 Annual Report! (none other than our very own PhD student/superstar Maria! 👏) #PitchFest

🎥 And it’s out! Watch the first episode of our #ExplainToMe animated video series where we spotlight the problem of #StructuredMissingness 🧩 in #PrecisionMedicine 🧬 I’ve never done anything like this before but had great fun bringing this to life! youtu.be/nlevyS1GLlQ?fe…

Grateful and excited to become a cross-disciplinary fellow at Institute of Genetics and Cancer! Looking forward to the journey ahead! 🌟

Pretty strong evidence of negative mental health effects of doing a PhD. Recent working paper by Eva Ranehill, Anna Sandberg, Sanna Bergvall, and Clara Fernström. Paper link: swopec.hhs.se/lunewp/abs/lun…

Two papers. On the left, a non-randomized, non-crossover study showing that a one-off sauna exposure significantly decreased arterial stiffness, with implications on cardiovascular health. On the right, a randomized, crossover (more robust) study, showing no benefits on

🚨 New Textbook on Conformal Prediction 🚨 arxiv.org/abs/2411.11824 “The goal of this book is to teach the reader about the fundamental technical arguments that arise when researching conformal prediction and related questions in distribution-free inference. Many of these

Expert's Dilemma: the more specialized you become, the less open you are to creative solutions from other fields. But the more you explore other fields, the more you risk losing credibility in your home field.

Moltes gràcies, #SuplementCatRàdio, per donar espai a una conversa tan important a la ràdio pública un dissabte al matí: 3cat.cat/3cat/la-salut-… (quina grata sorpresa!) La salut mental en el doctorat (i sempre). Moltes gràcies als testimonis per la valentia i claredat, companys!

The good idea comes when one person feels comfortable enough to say something that might make them look stupid and their friend is open enough to recognize its potential.

We've been awarded a UKRI MRC grant to examine the causes and consequences of #heterochromatin hypomethylation in cancer 🥳. #postdoc opportunity coming in the near future. #epigenetics. Please share with anyone who might be interested.

Read this paper by @CGATist and Ava Khamseh: High order expression dependencies finely resolve cryptic states and subtypes in single cell data | Molecular Systems Biology embopress.org/doi/full/10.10… MRC_HGU

There are almost two-thirds more people living with ME/CFS in England than previously thought, new study from our researchers; PhD student Gemma Samms and Prof Chris Ponting finds. Read more on the study here: institute-genetics-cancer.ed.ac.uk/mecfs-cases-in… ME Research UK