Our Research

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Clinical Data Science

Translational Bioinformatics

Projects

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Automated Image Analysis

AI-assisted diagnosis in rheumatology

Federated Learning

Today, in every aspect of our lives, everything we do leaves a digital footprint. Health-care institutions are also increasingly …

Human Reproduction Reloaded

We are proud to be part of the UZH University Research Priority Programs (URPP) where we together with the Schwank lab investigate the …

Patient Similarity Analysis

Since the early days of computing, healthcare professionals have dreamt of using the vast storage and processing powers of computers to …

Long-read sequencing - Part I

An introduction to long-read sequencing.

MRIdle

Helping reduce idle time in the USZ Radiology department

30 days All-Cause Readmission

Comparing neural-networks versus logistic regression for predicting readmission.

autoDISCERN

Assessing the quality of online health information with AI.

Single Cell RNA Sequencing

Cancer on the cell level.

Drug-Drug Interactions

Novel computational method for drug-drug interaction predictions which are an important consideration for patient treatment.

Automated Reports from Xrays

Using deep learning for automatically generated medical reports describing radiological images.

Recent Posts

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AI to support the early diagnosis of Systemic Sclerosis (SSc)

We recently published a joint work with the Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital of Zurich, the Department of Quantitative …
Last updated on Dec 13, 2022 1 min read Research

Zoo visit and Christmas dinner

Last week, our Lab went to the Zoo of Zurich and had a nice Christmas dinner with Fondue at “Chäsalp”. First, we spent the afternoon …
Last updated on Dec 15, 2022 1 min read Fun

Lab Outing: Küsnacht walk

A late autumn “hike”.
Last updated on Nov 11, 2022 1 min read Fun

Interpretable Machine Learning

How can we better understand what our models are telling us?
Last updated on Sep 26, 2022 5 min read Research

Bio-informatics event

Last month, the Krauthammerlab and four other bio-informatics groups (Boeva, Menze, Rätsch and Vogt labs) from the ETH, UZH and USZ …
Last updated on Dec 15, 2022 1 min read Talks

Data Traffic Control - make your data files human-friendly

Data files are the building materials we work with every day, all day. Working with them should be effortless.
Last updated on Dec 9, 2022 3 min read Research

Lab Hike: Adlisberg

Hiking through the May fog.
Last updated on Sep 22, 2022 1 min read Fun

Genomics

Genomics has and continues to transform our world and our society.
Last updated on Sep 9, 2022 7 min read Genomics

Lab Hike: Mount Rigi

This is how our lab gatherings look like during the pandemic.
Last updated on Nov 6, 2020 2 min read Fun

A Quest for Reproducible Data Science

Have you ever tried to reproduce someone else’s analysis and got different results?
Last updated on Nov 16, 2021 3 min read Research

Book Review: Causality, Probability and Medicine by Donald Gillies

I read Donald Gillies’ book “Causality, Probability and Medicine” a while ago and wanted to give a brief comment and overview of the …
Last updated on Nov 16, 2021 6 min read

Biobanking at USZ

The USZ is building a centralized biobank infracture primarily for liquid samples together with standardized processed regarding sample …
Last updated on Mar 3, 2020 2 min read Talks

Cat videos and retrotransposons

Rambling about memes and junk DNA
Last updated on Nov 16, 2021 5 min read Genetics

DQBM opening

The newly formed department of Quantitative Biomedicine, which the Krauthammer lab is part of, celebrated a kick-off meeting in October …
Last updated on Nov 16, 2021 1 min read Fun

3rd Brown Bag Lunch

Last week’s Brown Bag Lunch was hosted by the Medical Informatics Group of University of Zurich. Prof. Krauthammer provided an …
Last updated on Jan 7, 2020 1 min read Talks

Secure Data Exchange Using Distributed Ledger Technologies

Secure data exchange and integration is essential in medical informatics as it enables and accelerates evidence based medicine. …
Last updated on Dec 2, 2019 2 min read Talks

Outing Around the Lake

Whereas our first Lab outing toured the old city center, our second excursion explored Zurich’s lake. Our day began at the head …
Last updated on Dec 2, 2019 2 min read Fun

Lab Outing: City Tour

The first group activity of our newly founded group was to take a walk in the city we all work in and get acquainted with its history …
Last updated on Dec 2, 2019 2 min read Fun

2nd Brown Bag Lunch

Last week, the Research Data Service Center (RDSC) of UniSpital Zürich (USZ) hosted the 2nd event of our jointly conducted series of …
Last updated on Dec 2, 2019 1 min read Talks

Mobile Health – Eine Technologie wird erwachsen

Last updated on Feb 3, 2020 1 min read

Von der Forschung profitieren auch die Patientinnen und Patienten

Das UniversitätsSpital Zürich (USZ) engagiert sich stark im Bereich Forschung und Lehre. Im Jahre 2017 standen verschiedene Projekte im …
Last updated on Feb 3, 2020 1 min read

Meet the Team

Principal Investigator

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Michael Krauthammer

PI

Clinical Data Science, Translational Bioinformatics, Cancer Genetics

Senior Researchers and Postdocs

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Farhad Nooralahzadeh

Senior Researcher

NLP, Machine Learning, Information Extraction, Domain Adaptation

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Manuel Schürch

Postdoc

Machine Learning, Gaussian Processes, Time Series

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Zsolt Balázs

Postdoc

Bioinformatics, Cancer Genomics, Long-read sequencing, cfDNA sequencing

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Ahmed Allam

Senior Researcher

Machine Learning

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Amina Mollaysa

Postdoc

Machine Learning

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Morteza Rohanian

Postdoc

Natural Language Processing, Clinical Machine Learning, Spoken Dialogue Processing

Grad Students

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Cécile Trottet

PhD Student

Machine Learning, Clinical Decision Support Systems

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Kyriakos Schwarz

PhD Student

Bioinformatics, Computational Pharmacology, Deep Learning

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Ivna Ivanković

PhD Student

Bioinformatics, Cancer Genomics

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Beatrice Zanchi

Affiliated PhD Student

Electrical heart disease, Biomedical signal processing, Machine Learning, Time Series

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Xiaochen Zheng

PhD Student

Machine Learning, Longitudinal Data Analysis, Machine Perception

Research Software Engineers

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Mark McMahon

Senior Research Software Engineer

Data Science Tooling, Statistics, Machine Learning

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Todor Gitchev

Senior Research Software Engineer

Bioinformatics, Applied Mathematics, Genomics & Epigenetics, Algorithms

Research Assistants

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Giulia Rathmes

Physician

Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Machine Learning for Health Care, Internal Medicine

Richard Affolter

Master Thesis Student

Machine Learning, Bioinformatics, Time Series Analysis

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Sanghwan Kim

Research Assistant

Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, Multi-task Learning

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Wadusan Sebastianpillai

MSc student

Bioinformatics, Cancer Genomics, Liquid biopsy

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Xingyu Chen

Research Assistant

Contrastive Learning, Time-series analysis, Natural Language Processing

Administrators

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Claudia Stenger

Administrative Assistant

Affiliated Researchers

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Fabio Rinaldi

Research Group Leader

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Jan Bartussek

Research Group Leader

Physiology and Pathophysiology, Nonlinear Dynamics, Mechanistic Modelling

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Matthias Joos

Associated Data Engineer, USZ

Alumni

Nicolas Perez

Postdoc

Laura Kinkead

Senior Research Software Engineer

Nivitha Punniyamoorthy

BSc student

Matteo Berchier

Research Assistant

Matthias Dittberner

Data Scientist

Anna Sintsova

Postdoc

Aron Horvath

Postdoctoral Researcher

Daniel Trejo Banos

Postdoctoral researcher

Han Yuan

Visiting PhD Student

Leopold Franz

Research Assistant

Lukas Bachmann

Physician

Sebastian

Mascot

Simon

Mascot

Siyuan Luo

MSc student

Mascots

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Globi

Senior Data Masseuse

Sleeping, Hunting birds and mice, Scratching trees

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Iskra

Feel-good and Security Officer

Being the fastest dog in the neighborhood, Maintaining owner’s physical and mental health, Living the best day of her life every day

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Oscar

The Last Airbender

Jumping all over the place 🦘, Knocking over Chess pieces ♟️♕, remote control 📺 and everything in front of him, Playing soccer ⚽ and chasing butterflies 🦋, Sleeping 😴 in front of laptops 💻, Participating in origami 📄🏮 and crafting activities 🧶🎨

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Teuta

Bird Flight Coordinator

Belly rubs, Staying at home, Hanging around with her dog

Job Opportunities

Master thesis / Semester project

Cell imaging-based diagnostic platform for patients with rheumatic diseases We are looking for a motivated student who is skilled in …
Last updated on Sep 19, 2022 Data Science, Bioinformatics

Project Manager IT 80 - 100 %

The LOOP Zurich is a medical center for translational research and precision medicine. It focuses on new approaches, better …
Last updated on Nov 11, 2022

We are looking for Masters Students!

We are currently looking for Master’s students in the field of Bioinformatics for the topic of Nucleosome footprints in cell-free …
Last updated on Dec 2, 2022 Data Science, Bioinformatics

Contact

  • Michael Krauthammer

    Chair of Medical Informatics

    Department of Quantitative Biomedicine

    Schmelzbergstrasse 26

    8006 Zürich

    Building/Room: SHM 26 C2

  • Claudia Stenger

    Administrative Assistant

    Department of Quantitative Biomedicine

    Schmelzbergstrasse 26

    8006 Zürich

    Building/Room: SHM 26 D1

    phone: +41 44 635 66 31