Smart Medicine

We talk a lot about AI making everything better. What evidence do we have that it works in Medicine? I will explain where I see it's role, as the dishwasher. I will talk you through our exciting project, BloodCounts!, where we aim to make the ChatGPT of blood.

Our DNA contains genes that carry the basic instructions of how our body works, but genes themselves are not the whole story. Changes on top of these can determine which genes are turned on or off, shaping how the cells function across different organs, such as the heart. In this talk, we will explore how epigenetics plays a key role in cardiac disease. Using either samples directly obtained from human hearts or lab-grown heart cells that let us examine the effects of turning specific genes on or off, we can better understand these epigenetic changes occurring in common cardiac conditions.

Radiation has received a bad reputation over the years, however correctly harnessing it is crucial in our war on cancer. Unlike externally administered radiation, injectable radioactive drugs treat and diagnose previously undetectable cancers across the body. Radioactive damage can be used to directly kill cancer cells, however in low doses these drugs have the potential to label cancer cells for killing by our immune systems. By combining the specificity of these drugs to cancer with lower doses of radiation we can design safer more effective treatments.