Last Friday, Sano organized an internal event dedicated to Diversity, one of its core values. The training was provided by Diversity Hub, an organization that shares knowledge, experience, and best practices and helps businesses benefit from diversity.

More than 20 people gathered on Friday evening to talk about future of medicine and healthcare and after 3 hours of discussion nobody wanted to leave! We think, it shows that the new format of networking and communication we presented on 19 of May, i.e., Coffee with Sano, is relevant to needs of many professionals from the field.

A research made by Sano scientists was among 58 (out of 280) papers accepted for the 23rd International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2023). We are very proud of this success as CCGrid is a leading forum on the distributed systems topics. The Symposium took place in India, Bangalore, 1-4 May.  

Last week, Sano Science was represented by dr Anna Maria Trawińska and dr Katarzyna Baliga-Nicholson at the International Building Bridges Conference, hosted by the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR). 

The director of Sano, Dr Maciej Malawski, took part in a conference “Teaming for success: How to capitalise on centres of excellence in Widening countries?” in Warsaw, Hotel Marriott, 16th of May.

Community of Doctors-Innovators or NIL_IN (in Polish: Społeczność Lekarzy Innowatorów) is a new project of the Polish Chamber of Physicians and Dentists (Naczelna Izba Lekarska).

EIT Jumpstarter is the award-winning pre-acceleration programme for scientists, researchers, and innovators, who want to validate their idea and develop business skills so to create and run their own start-up. The strategic aim of this program is to create a sustainable impact in the Central-Eastern and Southern-European regions by boosting innovation and entrepreneurship within this part of Europe.

The Sano team had a great opportunity to experience the power of the “Teaming for Excellence” program recently. A week ago, we had guests from Fraunhofer ISI, an institution which is our partner and has an aim to help Sano with its integration into the international scientific environment. 

Professor Wiesław Nowiński, senior postdoc researcher at Sano, a scientist renowned as a creator of world-famous human brain atlases, proposed a brand-new method of sulcal presentation. The method employs the inner cortical surface for sulci examination from the inside of the cerebrum. The study is reported in the Journal of Anatomy.

AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków is opening the largest Artificial Intelligence Centre of Excellence in Poland. On this occasion, Sano is invited to give several AI workshops for the students.

“Computation at the Cutting Edge of Science” - it is a slogan of the International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS 2023), an A-rank conference in the CORE classification. Since 2001, ICCS annually brings together researchers and scientists from mathematics and computer science, as well as from other areas pioneering computational methods in science. Average attendance of the conference each year is about 350 participants. Submission of papers and participation in this event is an important achievement for scientists.

Easter is a symbol of human victory over death, it shows how much we desire immortality and eternal life. Yet, immortality is still a problematic topic, medicine is now making huge progress toward extending the human lifespan and improving quality of life. Computational medicine is one of the biggest drivers of those processes.

Sano is now a part of an international consortium working on a project “NEARDATA: Extreme Near-Data Processing Platform” supported by the European Union Horizon program. The project’s kick-off meeting happened on 10th of February 2023 at University of Rovira i Virgili (URV) in Tarragona, URV is the coordinator of the project. 

Agus Hartoyo and Rosmary Blanco, researchers from the Computer Vision Data Science team of Sano, took part in the fifth edition of Brainhack Warsaw. The main idea of the event was to communicate and share knowledge on data mining, machine learning and brain research by working on neuroscience-related projects in teams. 

On The International Day of Mathematics, we’d like to share the interview with Professor Marek Michalewicz, the author and the leader of the project which connected supercomputers on four continents in seven countries into one concurrent configuration of the resources of the "Supercomputer Galaxy" (InfiniCortex project). Professor Michalewicz was a Visiting Professor at Sano in 2022 and we had the opportunity to ask him some questions.  

Researchers from the Computer Vision Data Science Team at Sano and the Institute of Mathematics at the University of Warsaw have successfully applied quantum computing techniques to discover structure in brain networks. 

Sano PhD student Monika Pytlarz presented her work at  “SPIE Medical Imaging” conference in San Diego, USA.

Gamification of medical applications seems to be inevitable to keep users involved in the process of self-reporting. It is widely accepted that gamification design should be personalized, and there are several approaches to categorizing users for the sake of providing them with the most encouraging design.

The end of February was marked by SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE23), an important meeting for computational science researchers. This year conference gathered about 2000 attendees in Amsterdam.

Data Science and Medicine are two different fields of knowledge and practice, the one very young, the other rather old, do they have something in common to be able to cooperate and benefit from each other?