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How can AI be integrated into healthcare in a way that is both effective and responsible? And what does this require from healthcare leaders? Last week, board members from all seven Dutch university medical centres came together in Groningen for a two-day masterclass on AI in healthcare. exquAIro developed and delivered the programme, giving participants … Continued

The fourth class of the exquAIro Biomedical AI Bootcamp has completed its training. At the closing symposium on Friday 18 September, participants presented their work, reflected on the role of AI in their research and received their certificates. The programme also marked the next step in exquAIro’s approach to biomedical AI: supporting researchers not only … Continued

Not every AI technique is suitable for every research question. For Dorthe van Waarden, partner at data & AI company Rewire, it is therefore not simply about keeping up with technological developments, but about understanding which technology fits which challenge. This approach is also an important principle underlying the collaboration between Rewire and exquAIro, and … Continued

Interest in the exquAIro Biomedical AI Bootcamp continues to grow. Class 5 is now almost fully booked, with just one place remaining. At the same time, registration for Class 6 is now open. Designed for clinician-scientists, biomedical researchers and pharmacologists at Dutch University Medical Centers, the Biomedical AI Bootcamp equips participants with the knowledge and … Continued

When clinical epidemiologist and microbiologist researcher Matthijs Berends (UMCG) started exploring whether AI could uncover hidden infectious disease signals in GP records, he and his colleagues were tackling a fundamental challenge in public health: how can we detect outbreaks before traditional surveillance systems do? The result is ERNIE, an AI-powered framework that analyses anonymized free-text … Continued

When radiation oncologist Kristel Muijs (UMCG) noticed that traditional predictive models were increasingly reaching their limits, she decided to deepen her understanding of artificial intelligence. She joined exquAIro’s Biomedical AI Bootcamp at a time when her involvement in the national AI4Health consortium was taking shape. Today, she contributes from UMCG to several oncology use cases … Continued

We are pleased to share that exquAIro has officially obtained ANBI status. ANBI stands for ‘Public Benefit Organisation’ (Algemeen Nut Beogende Instelling), generally called ‘nonprofit organisation’, a designation granted by the Dutch Tax Administration to organisations committed to serving the public good. The status allows donations to our foundation to be tax-deductible under certain conditions. … Continued

When pediatric pulmonologist Elin Kersten joined the first cohort of the exquAIro Biomedical AI Bootcamp, she did not yet have a fully formed research line in artificial intelligence. What she did have was a clinical question that kept returning in her daily practice at the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG): which children with early respiratory … Continued

When Annelies Bos came across a LinkedIn post about exquAIro’s AI programme for biomedical researchers, she immediately recognised its potential for the Long COVID field. As co-founder and board member Research of Stichting Long COVID (Foundation), Bos is constantly looking for new ways to accelerate biomedical research into a disease that still leaves many patients … Continued

As an Assistant Professor in the Systems Genetics section at the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), Joeri van der Velde operates at the intersection of genetics, data infrastructure, and artificial intelligence. His work tackles one of the biggest challenges in modern medicine: how to make use of the vast amounts of genetic data that are … Continued