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colorectal and breast cancer, he has also been invited to act as a Consultant and Key Opinion Leader to several leading biotech and pharmaceutical companies. He is an author of a book, over 50 chapters and reviews and more than 200 peer reviewed research publications.








Ralf Huss, M.D., Ph.D. Ralf Huss holds an M.D. degree from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, and Ph.D. degree from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. Following internships and residencies in Medicine, Immunology and Transplantation Biology at the Memorial-Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in NYC, the University Hospital in Zurich, Switzerland and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, WA, Dr. Huss was appointed senior resident at the Institute of Immunology in Essen, Germany in 1994, before he moved to the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich to complete his training in anatomical, surgical and molecular pathology. In 2005 he was appointed Global Head of Pathology and Tissue Biomarker at the Pharmaceutical company Roche (Switzerland and Germany). After pioneering the integration of image analysis and computational pathology into the clinical histopathology workflow together with the Nobel Laureate Gerd Binnig at Definies / AstraZeneca, in 2020, Dr. Huss returned to academia and is currently Professor and Deputy Director at the Institute of Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics and at the Institute for Digital Medicine, University Hospital Augsburg, Germany. Professor Huss has published more than 150 scientific papers and 4 books in the fields of cell therapy, tissue phenomics and artificial intelligence in pathology. Dr. Huss holds several patents and has served as a Board member and / or consultant to a number of private and public corporations.









Clive Roy Taylor, M.D., D. Phil., MRCP (Ir), FRCPath. Clive Taylor holds M.A. and M.D. degrees from the University of Cambridge, and M.A. and D. Phil degrees from the University of Oxford. Following internships in Medicine and Surgery at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, Dr. Taylor was appointed Lecturer at the University of Oxford, in 1970. A " Fellowship" in Cancer Research took Dr. Taylor to the University of Southern California (USC) in 1975, where he worked on lymphoma with Robert Lukes. In 1984 he was appointed to the Chair of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at USC, a position that he held for 25 years. In 1998 Professor Taylor also accepted the post of Senior Associate Dean for Educational Affairs at the Keck School of Medicine, USC, a role that he filled until July 2009. Professor Taylor is a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists (U.K.), a Diplomate of the American Board of Pathology, and a Member of the Royal College of Physicians (Ireland). He was President of the U.S. Association of Pathology Chairs from 1996-1999, President of the U.S. Biological Stain Commission, from1994 - 1998, and is a member of the Royal Society of Medicine (UK). Professor Taylor Chaired an FDA Advisory Panel for Diagnostic Devices and Radiology until 2007. Professor Taylor has published more than 450 scientific papers and 12 books, in the fields of immunohistochemistry, cancer, lymphoma research, digital pathology and education. Dr. Taylor holds several patents, is Editor-in-Chief of Applied Immunohistochemistry and Molecular Morphology, and has served as a Board member and / or consultant to a number of private and public corporations.