The Hertie Institute for AI in Brain Health improves early diagnosis of diseases of the nervous system and their prevention with the help of artificial intelligence.
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Last Friday, we celebrated the 10-year anniversary of the lab of Philipp Berens. What began in 2016, with Philipp Berens becoming a Group Leader at the Institute for Ophthalmic Research at the University of Tübingen, has now grown into the founding…
On May 5th, the NeuroAI Symposium invited researchers to Tübingen to discuss the interactions of advancements in Machine Learning and findings in Neuroscience. Four posters were contributed from the HertieAI (by Jonas Beck, Fabio Seel, Harini Sudha J…
Congratulations to Dr. Kerol Djoumessi for successfully defending his PhD!
The Eyewire II consortium has just received a $950,000 Transformational Team Science Award from Research to Prevent Blindness to build the first complete wiring diagram of the mouse retina.
From 8 March to 3 April 2026, Kerol Djoumessi was invited as a lecturer for the introductory course on explainable machine learning (XAI) at the Foundational Methods in Data Science doctoral training school in Kigali, Rwanda.
AI has demonstrated strong performance in many areas of medicine, yet its impact in psychiatry remains limited. This is largely due to the complexity of psychiatric disorders, including high phenotypic heterogeneity, the absence of reliable…
On 9 February 2026, the extended steering committee of the Max Planck Schools made the final selection from the proposals submitted for the fourth Max Planck School. The new School will develop advanced AI methods for basic life sciences research.…
FAZ KI Podcast: Philipp Berens, Professor für Data Science und Direktor des Hertie AI, erörtert in dieser Folge, wie KI die Diagnostik und den Klinikalltag verändern kann und welche Voraussetzungen für eine bessere Versorgung erfüllt sein müssen.