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TIA Centre Spotlight: Bashayer Abdallah

Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:52:00 GMT

For this week's Spotlight, we would like to highlight the career journey and current work of Bashayer Abdallah, a Postgraduate Researcher in the centre whose work focuses on monocular depth estimation for both medical and real-world imaging environments. Read more.

ASCO 2026: American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting

Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:31:00 GMT

The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, held in Chicago from 29 May to 2 June 2026, hosted an estimated 40,000 oncology professionals, making it the largest international conference dedicated to oncology research in the world. This provided us with a unique opportunity to interact with industry experts and clinicians as well as learn about cutting-edge research in the field. Read more.

The Big Ol' Nerdy Charity Symposium (BONCS)

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 09:02:00 GMT

The TIA Centre researchers were out in force last week and participated in a University of ��ɫ��Ƶ Student Union charity symposium held on Campus.

The Big Ol' Nerdy Charity Symposium (BONCS) event is ��ɫ��Ƶ Student Union’s NEW flagship charity event where lecturers, PhD students and external speakers come together to give talks on computational cancer research. The symposium was sponsored by Histofy, a spinout from the TIA Centre aimed at accelerated precision diagnostics in both clinical and pharmaceutical workflows and raised funds for Cancer Research UK. Read more.

Digital Pathology, AI, and a Lap of Murrayfield: The Path Forward in Edinburgh

Fri, 29 May 2026 09:24:00 GMT

It was a pleasure (and a privilege) to be invited to speak at the “Transforming Digital Pathology & AI: The Path Forward” conference in Edinburgh this year, particularly given the calibre of speakers. Sharing the stage with leaders in computational pathology such as Prof. Jeroen van der Laak, Dr Raphaëlle Luisier (University of Bern), and the TIA Centre’s very own Dr Fayyaz Minhas made it clear from the outset that this would be a meeting worth attending. Read more.

By Adam Shephard

TIA Team Members Reflect on ISBI 2026

Wed, 27 May 2026 13:10:00 GMT

The month of April saw the annual IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) 2026 held in London. This year, researchers and students had eight papers accepted at the conference. Read more.

TIA Centre Spotlight: George Wright

Wed, 20 May 2026 13:43:00 GMT

For this week's Spotlight, we would like to highlight the career journey and current work of George Wright, a Postgraduate Researcher in the centre whose work focuses on endometrial tissue and examining the causes of recurrent pregnancy loss. Read more.

��ɫ��Ƶ Undergraduates Present at ISBI 2026 in London

Mon, 18 May 2026 17:34:00 GMT

This April, we had the incredible opportunity to travel to London to attend IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) 2026, a leading international conference in biomedical imaging research. Although an unfamiliar experience for both of us, it was an incredibly valuable insight into the field of computational pathology and academia as a whole. Read more.

By Seth Chang and Muhammad Amjad

Multimodal Oncology Agent ��ɫ��Ƶ from TIA Centre Internship Wins ISBI 2026 Best Paper Award

Thu, 14 May 2026 10:14:00 GMT

I am Hafsa Akebli, a PhD student at the University of Udine, Italy, and I carried out a two-month research internship between September and November 2025 at the Tissue Image Analytics Centre, University of ��ɫ��Ƶ, under the co-supervision of Professor Nasir Rajpoot and Dr Adam Shephard. During this visit, I worked on a multimodal oncology agent for IDH1 mutation prediction in low-grade glioma, in collaboration with my PhD supervisor Professor Vincenzo Della Mea. This work led to our paper “Multimodal Oncology Agent for IDH1 Mutation Prediction in Low-Grade Glioma,” which was presented orally at the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) 2026 by Dr Adam Shephard. Read more.

TIA Centre Spotlight: Behnaz Elhaminia

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:03:00 GMT

For this week's Spotlight, we would like to highlight the career journey and current work of Behnaz Elhaminia, a Research Fellow in the centre whose work focuses on developing AI methods for histopathology image analysis. Read more.

TIA Centre Spotlight: David Epstein

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 10:24:00 GMT

For this week's Spotlight, we would like to highlight the career journey and current work of David Epstein, an Emeritus Professor in Mathematics whose work and ideas have played a vital role in the development of the TIA centre. Read more.