Leadership
Amin Turki, MD, PhD
Principal Investigator
Privatdozent (PD)
IKIM, University Hospital Essen · Marien Hospital Herne / Ruhr University Bochum
Essen / Bochum, Germany
How they study it
- unsupervised probabilistic models
- clinical cohort analysis
- machine learning on routine laboratory and transplant data
Projects
Selected papers
- International testing and refinement of AI algorithms predicting acute leukemia subtypes from routine laboratory data Nat Commun 2026 — International testing of algorithms that read acute leukemia subtypes from routine laboratory data — a first-author Nature Communications paper for the group.
- Data-driven grading of acute graft-versus-host disease Nat Commun 2023 — The group’s signature transplant-complications paper: data-driven grading of acute GVHD, with a public calculator and code.
- Artificial Intelligence in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Care and Complication Management Acta Haematol 2025 — A review of AI in transplant care and complication management, written with lab co-authors.
- Cytomegalovirus kinetics after hematopoietic cell transplantation reveal peak titers with differential impact on mortality, relapse and immune reconstitution Am J Hematol 2021 — CMV kinetics after HCT — peak titers, mortality, relapse and immune reconstitution — last-author work with Saskia Leserer.
- Advances in decision support for diagnosis and early management of acute leukaemia Lancet Digit Health 2024 — A short Lancet Digital Health commentary on decision support for diagnosing and first managing acute leukaemia.