INF Project and Chief Information Officer

Prof. Dr. Katarzyna Bozek

CRC 1607 | Prof. Dr. Katharzyna Bozek

Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne
University of Cologne
Robert-Koch-Str. 31
50931 Cologne, Germany
+49 221 478 89529
k.bozek@uni-koeln.de

Projects:

Project leader

Z05

Scientific career

2023- W3 tenured professor, University of Cologne, Medical Faculty

2022-2023 W2 tenure track professor, University of Cologne, Medical Faculty

2020-2022 Junior Group Leader, Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne

2015-2019 Postdoctoral scholar, group leader, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Japan

2011-2015 Postdoctoral scholar at CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Shanghai, China and Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

 

Selected publications

  1. Pisula JI, Bozek K. Fine-Tuning a Multiple Instance Learning Feature Extractor with Masked Context Modelling and Knowledge Distillation. (2025) European Conference for Computer Vision – ECCV 2024 Workshops. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 15638. Springer, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-91721-9_1
  2. Rose F, Michaluk M, Blindauer T, Ignatowska-Jankowska BM, O’Shaughnessy L, Stephens GJ, Pereira TD, Uusisaari MY, Bozek K Deep Imputation for Skeleton Data (DISK) for Behavioral Science (2025), Nature Methods
  3. Pisula JI, Helbig D, Sancéré L, Persa O-D, Bürger C, Fröhlich A, Lorenz C, Bingmann S, Niebel D, Drexler K, Landsberg J, Thomas R, Bozek K*, Brägelmann J* (2025) Explainable, federated deep learning model predicts disease progression risk of cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma Nature (2025) njp Precision Oncology, 9, 205. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41698-025-00997-4
  4. Deserno M., Bozek K., Unsupervised Representation Learning of C. elegans Poses and Behavior Sequences From Microscope Video Recordings (2025) eLife14:RP106593 doi: 10.7554/eLife.106593.1
  5. Naji, H, Hahn, P, Pisula, JI, Ugliano S, Simon A, Büttner R, Bozek K. Deep learning-based interpretable prediction of recurrence of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. BJC Rep 3, 34 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44276-025-00147-0
  6. Pisula JI, Bozek K. Efficient WSI classification with sequence reduction and transformers pretrained on text. Sci Rep 15, 5612 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-88139-5
  7. Pisula JI, Datta RR, Börner-Valdez L, Avemarg J-R, Jung J-O, Plum P, Löser H, Lohneis P, Meuschke M, Pinto dos Santos D, Gebauer F, Quaas A, Bruns CJ, Walch A, Lawonn K, Popp FC, Bozek K. Predicting the HER2 status in esophageal cancer from tissue microarrays using convolutional neural networks, Br J Cancer (2023)
  8. Bozek K, Hebert L, Portugal Y, Mikheyev AS, Stephens GJ. Markerless tracking of entire insect colony. Nat Commun (2021) 12, 1733
  9. Nguyen DMT, Luzzolino ML, Mankel A, Bozek K, Stephens GJ, Peleg O. Flow-Mediated Olfactory Communication in Honey Bee Swarms. PNAS (2021) March 30, 118 (13) e2011916118
  10. Butt L, Unnersjö-Jess D, Höhne M, Sergei G, Witasp A, Wernerson A, Patrakka J, Hoyer PF, Blom H, Schermer B, Bozek K*, Benzing T*. Deep learning-based segmentation and quantification of podocyte foot process morphology (in review)

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