Alison Bert

Prof Jakob Kather’s research team at Else Kröner Fresenius Center for Digital Health at TUD Dresden University of Technology in Germany is using AI to revolutionize oncology treatment through biomarker extraction. Dr Karin Dembrower, Senior Breast Radiologist at St Göran’s Hospital in Sweden, is overseeing a program using AI technology for breast cancer screening with promising results.

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Is autism a superpower? Or is it a characteristic lack of empathy? These and other descriptors — together with a past tendency to view neurodivergent people as needing “fixing” — are in fact unhelpful and even damaging. Editors and publishers can play a powerful role in changing these negative perceptions by the intentional use of affirming, compassionate language and by being allies to the many neurodivergent colleagues we work with.