Invitation: Health Care & AI Lecture with Professor Amina Qutub (UTSA)
Posted: 22 September 2025
The Biomedical Center of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, in cooperation with the Presidium of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, invites researchers to a lecture by Amina Qutub from the University of Texas in the USA. Professor Qutub develops AI technologies to improve human health and will speak on Health Care & AI: From data to clinical decision-making or Oncology & bioinformatics: predicting treatment outcomes using data.
The lecture takes place on Friday, 26 September 2025, at 10:30 a.m. in the Dionýz Blaškovič Lecture Hall of the Virology Institute, BMC SAS, Dúbravská cesta 9, Bratislava.
What the lecture will cover
- Identifying patient characteristics from molecular data to inform therapy selection.
- Using computational and clinical crowds to predict chemotherapy response.
- Finding actionable biomarkers that translate to decisions at the bedside.
- Incorporating newer AI methods into established bioinformatics pipelines.
About Professor Amina Ann Qutub
Amina Ann Qutub is a Burzik Foundation-funded Professor of Engineering Design and Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). She serves as Co-Director of the Center for Precision Medicine, Assistant Director of Strategic Partnerships and Research Thrust Co-Lead at MATRIX Artificial Intelligence (AI) Consortium, and Director of the UTSA - UT Health Graduate Group in Biomedical Engineering.
She is the Co-Founder of PaloBio and Leah, AI-focused biotech startups. Her work sits at the intersection of computer science, neurobiology, and engineering with direct application to human health. Learn more about the department at UTSA Biomedical Engineering.
Active initiatives
- iRemedyACT: a nationwide initiative developing AI tools for clinical decision-making to optimize care for trauma patients.
- MATCH: an initiative funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to provide AI tools to biomedical researchers.
- Quantu: a nationwide study to optimize brain health across the lifespan using biosensors, AI, and neurogenesis bioanalysis.
Why attend
- Get practical methods for turning multi-omic data into testable hypotheses and clinical signals.
- See how crowd-based modeling and clinical expertise can improve predictive accuracy.
- Take away approaches for integrating newer AI techniques with your current bioinformatics workflows.
Event details
- Date & time: Friday, 26 September 2025, 10:30 a.m.
- Venue: Dionýz Blaškovič Lecture Hall, Virology Institute, BMC SAS, Dúbravská cesta 9, Bratislava
- Organizers: Biomedical Center of the Slovak Academy of Sciences with the Presidium of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
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