Thursday, November 19, 2026, 16:00
Auditorium
G. V. Shivashankar, ETH Zurich & PSI
Abstract:
Cancer remains one of the greatest challenges in modern medicine and affects millions of people worldwide. In this talk, I will give a brief introduction to cancer and how AI is transforming cancer research, with a focus on a major unmet need: detecting cancer early, when it is most treatable. Toward this goal, I will show how the way DNA is packed inside our cells changes with disease, and how physics-inspired measures combined with AI can read these changes from simple microscope images. These signals can be found not only in tumors but also in a routine blood sample, offering a simpler and more accessible way to detect and monitor cancer. I will close with an outlook on how such approaches could pave the way to early cancer diagnosis and community screening.
Website: https://www.psi.ch/en/mgg