Jakob Kather
Full Professor at Technische Universität Dresden
Dresden, Saxony, Germany
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Top SchoolJakob Kather is a Full Professor at Technische Universität Dresden with 11 years of experience at the intersection of clinical oncology, medical imaging, and computational pathology. Trained as a physician (Dr. med.) and MSc in Medical Physics from Heidelberg, he has combined patient-facing roles in gastrointestinal oncology with research positions at DKFZ, NCT Heidelberg, and international visits to Chicago and Moffitt to develop computer-based biomarker discovery methods for solid tumors. His work spans high-throughput histological image analysis, tumor immunology, and translational projects that link algorithmic innovation to clinical workflows. As a tenure-tracked junior professor and former resident physician, he uniquely bridges rigorous clinical insight with quantitative, reproducible research. Colleagues describe him as someone who moves smoothly between the lab bench, the clinic, and computational pipelines — often turning complex histopathology into actionable biomarkers. Based in Dresden, he continues to push applied tumor immunity research toward clinical impact while mentoring the next generation of clinician-scientists.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Staatsexamen, Medizin, Staatsexamen, Medizin at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
German, English, Spanish
Github Skills (10)
readable7
metadata5
transfer-learning4
metadata-management4
deep-learning3
machine-learning3
pytorch3
histopathology2
tensorflow2
image-analysis1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
jnkather/DeepHistology
Aug 2019 - May 2021
Contributions:2 releases, 29 commits, 31 pushes in 1 year 9 months
jnkather/ColorDeconvolutionMatlab
May 2015 - Apr 2020
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years
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