Events

In December 2025, we had the pleasure of hosting a networking lunch for our students and those from the Precision Medicine Doctoral Training Programme.

Precision Medicine DTP

Our two programmes share many common and intersecting research themes that merit closer interaction. The event encouraged students to make use of this overlap, providing an opportunity to meet others with similar interests and exchange ideas in a relaxed setting.

To add some fun to the session, there was also a board games social after lunch.

A big thank you to the co-directors at Precision Medicine, Susan Farrington and Tom MacGillivray, for their help in organising and hosting the event.

In June 2025, we had the pleasure of hosting Mark van der Laan who delivered an insightful lecture on Targeted Learning & Causal Inference for Generating Actionable Information. By sharing his expertise he helped advance our understanding of how rigorous statistical can lead to impactful, data-driven decisions in Healthcare.

In June 2025, we hosted the Edinburgh Symposium on AI for Genomics, jointly with One Health Genomics Edinburgh (OHGE). The event brought together researchers and innovators at the crossroads of Artificial Intelligence and Genomic Science. Our speakers delivered fantastic talks on a wide range of topics exploring how AI is unravelling the complexities of our genetic code and revolutionising healthcare. It was a wonderful opportunity to network with both early career and established researchers from across the UK.

In March 2025, we had the privilege of hosting our inaugural Biomedical AI Cross-Sector Forum. The event brought together brilliant minds from academia, industry and the public sector to share perspectives on translating AI research into practice for real-world benefits to human health. It was great to see so many people in attendance. We hope the connections made at the event will give rise to new cross-sector collaborations in the near future. Our exceptional speakers took the time to share their expertise and shed light on some of the key challenges and opportunities in AI for better healthcare. They delivered some excellent presentations across a range of topics:

Helen Colhoun (MRC Human Genetics Unit at the University of Edinburgh) on Harnessing E-health Records and Biobanks for Collaborative Research with Industry.

Sandy Weir & Duncan Simpson (Canon Medical Research Europe Ltd.) on the Challenges of AI Adoption in the Global Market.

Miguel O. Bernabeu (Usher Institute, The University of Edinburgh) on AI for Health and his views from a Medical Imaging perspective.

Nada MALOU on Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)’s Experience in the Creation, Design, Development, and Scale-up of an AI-Powered Diagnostic Test.

Jonathan Fallowfield on the Opportunities and Challenges of AI in Hepatology.

Stephen J. Duffield on How is NICE - National Institute for Health and Care Excellence approaching AI for the evaluation of technologies.
 

The PhD students from the Biomedical AI CDT delivered a poster session presenting updates in their research over a variety of AI driven health topics.

We also had a career insights session, targeted at PhD students, focusing on the speakers' impressive career trajectories: Victoria Pereira (Goldman Sachs), Di Zhang (Teva Pharmaceuticals), Florian Klimm (Novo Nordisk), Oriol Canela-Xandri (Omecu), Olivier Labayle (University of Edinburgh).
 

We are grateful to everyone who helped make the event a success and look forward to hosting it annually going forward.