We are pleased to announce our summer school, which will be organised on September 16 to 18, 2025, hosted by Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO), C/ Saturnino Calleja 11-13, 08035, Barcelona, Spain
Dive into the intersection of AI and medicine at the intensive ODELIA Summer School
This three-day event brings together early-career researchers, data scientists, and clinicians to explore cutting-edge AI technologies that are shaping the future of healthcare. Participants will engage in:
- Interactive workshops on federated learning and privacy-preserving AI
- Lectures from leading experts in medical imaging and data science
- Networking opportunities with peers and professionals across Europe
Whether you’re a PhD student, postdoc, or healthcare innovator, the ODELIA Summer School offers a unique opportunity to deepen your knowledge and skills in a collaborative, real-world setting.
Programme:
Tuesday, 16th of September
13:30-14:00 – Arrival and welcome (Raquel Pérez López, VHIO)
14:00-15:00 – Keynote Lecture: Healing With Words – Large language models in medicine (Daniel Truhn, Aachen University Hospital)
15:00-16:30 – SESSION I: Student Elevator Pitches (Moderators: Olivia Prior Palomares and Daniel Navarro Garcia – VHIO)
16:30-17:00 – Guided Tour of Vall d´Hebron campus
17:00-19:30 – Networking Tapas at CELLEX
Wednesday, 17th of September
9:00-10:00 – Keynote Lecture: Development of a Clinically Viable MYC Inhibitor for Cancer Treatment: From an “Undruggable” Target to Clinical Trials (Silvia Casacuberta, VHIO)
10:00-11:00 – Workshop part I: theory
10:00-10:15 – Workshop Introduction (Raquel Pérez López, VHIO)
10:15-10:40 – Intro Lecture I: Clinical Trials 101 (Irene Braña – VHIO)
10:40-11:10 – Intro Lecture II: : AI In and Around Clinical Studies in Oncology: How AI is reshaping clinical studies and how one does a clinical study of an AI-enabled point-of-care intervention (Stephen Gilbert – Technische Universität Dresden)
11:10-11:30 – Coffee Break
11:30-13:00 – Workshop Kick-Off and Group Work (A) – Moderator: Raquel Pérez López (VHIO)
13:00-13:45 – Lunch
13:45-14:45 – Workshop Part II: Group Work (B) – Moderator: Raquel Pérez López (VHIO)
14:45-16:00 – Workshop Final Presentations and Experts’ Feedback – Moderator: Raquel Pérez López and Adrià Marcos Morales (VHIO)
17:00-19:00 – Team building activity: guided tour of Sant Pau Hospital
Thursday, 18th of September
9:00-11:00 – SESSION II: Distributed Learning (Moderators: Cristina Villaseca Sitjar and Adrià Marcos Morales – VHIO)
9:00-9:30 Kaapana: Open-source Federated Medical Imaging AI Platform (Mikulas Bankovic – DKFZ))
9:30-10:00 Federated Learning Across High- and Low-resource Settings (Karim Lekadir – Universitat de Barcelona)
10:00-10:30 Swarm Learning: Bridging the Gap Between Data Sharing and Privacy (Oliver Saldanha – Technische Universität Dresden)
10:30-11:00 Multi-Modal Federated Learning from Heterogeneous Cardiovascular Data (Malte Toelle – Universität Heidelberg)
11:00-11:30 – Coffee Break
11:30-13:00 – SESSION III: Breast Cancer Screening Techniques (Chairs: Marta Buetas Arcas and Maria Balaguer Montero – VHIO)
11:30-12:00 Introduction to Breast Cancer Imaging (Julia Camps Herrero – Fundación Ribera Salud)
12:00-12:30 An overview of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI): from basic principles to cutting-edge applications (Francesco Grussu – VHIO)
12:30-13:00 Breast MRI: Technique, Indications, and Future Applications (Belén Ubeda Hernández – Hospital Clinic de Barcelona)
13:00-13:30 – Closing Remarks and Elevator Pitch Awards (Raquel Pérez López, VHIO)
Click here to download the detailed programme.
Registration closed.
The ODELIA Summer School, Barcelona, Spain 16/09/2025 – 18/09/2025, has been accredited by the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME®) with 11.5 European CME credits (ECMEC®s).
The list of perceived or actual conflicts of interest of the members of the Scientific and Organising Committee is available here.
