Episode 97: Dr Ralf Huss – Immunology and Precision Cancer Medicine
Today my guest is Pathologist Dr Ralf Huss
What we discuss with Dr Huss:
- His path to medicine and his initial interest in surgery
- Studying immunology and transplant biology
- What it was like to be in these fields as exciting new discoveries were happening
- How he started working in the pharmaceutical industry and some of his job duties
- The early days of image analysis in pathology and how that field has evolved
- His role at the Institute for Digital Medicine, and the goals of the institute
- The origin of the book Precision Cancer Medicine: Role of the Pathologist and the intended audience
- How the role of the pathologist has changed in cancer medicine
- The need for standardization in digital and computational pathology
- Tumor heterogeneity and tumor microenvironment, and why these concepts are important
Links for this episode:
Precision Cancer Medicine: Role of the Pathologist
Artificial Intelligence Applications in Human Pathology
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