02/24/2026 - 17:00 – 18:30
IT:U Education Campus SCP 4, Altenberger Straße 66c, 1st Floor 4040 Linz, Austria
7th Inaugural Lecture
The Interdisciplinary Transformation University (IT:U) is pleased to invite you to the F1RST Inaugural Lecture, featuring:
- Spiros Denaxas, Head of the Research Group Computational Medicine
- Kristin Reiche, Head of the Research Group Digital Molecular Medicine
Agenda
17:00 – Welcome and short introduction Spiros Denaxas by Stefanie Lindstaedt
17:10 – Lecture by Spiros Denaxas on: „Improving human health and healthcare through data science.
- Longer lives, greater complexity: decoding disease clustering across the lifespan to inform precision care and evidence-based health policy.
- Beyond standardized medicine: machine learning uncovering disease subtypes to enable truly personalized treatment.
17:40 – Short introduction Kristin Reiche by Stefanie Lindstaedt
17:45 – Lecture by Kristin Reiche on: “Is digitalization in Molecular Medicine a moonshot project?”
- Data to decisions turning complex molecular diagnostics into real-world clinical impact.
- Engineering future therapies: integrating single-cell insights and bioinformatics to advance cellular immunotherapy.
18:15 – Open Discussion and Q&A