NEWS
Review of the Healthy Longevity Talent Incubator 2023
Our PhD candidate Wasu reflects on his participation in the Healthy Longevity Incubator 2023 in Singapore: At the beginning of July, I had the chance [...]
Digital Health VADIAN Innovation Prize 2023 – Application for Startups Open until October 22
The prestigious Digital Health VADIAN Innovation Prize takes place this year on November 30, 2023, at the Kantonsspital St. Gallen. It is embedded in the daylong symposium [...]
Ph.D. Position: Validating Personalized Digital Biomarkers for Metabolic Health with Clinical Labs
Engineering digital biomarkers of interstitial glucose from non-invasive smartwatches (npj Digital Medicine, 2021); A digital biomarker of diabetes from smartphone-based vascular signals (Nature Medicine 2020); Wearable [...]
Ph.D. Position: Developing Personalized Digital Biomarkers for Metabolic Health with Wearables and Machine Learning
Engineering digital biomarkers of interstitial glucose from non-invasive smartwatches (npj Digital Medicine, 2021); A digital biomarker of diabetes from smartphone-based vascular signals (Nature Medicine 2020); Wearable [...]
A warm welcome to PhD student Akshaye Shenoi
Akshaye Shenoi is a doctoral student at ETH Zurich where he is supervised by Prof. Dr. Elgar Fleisch and Prof. Dr. Tobias Kowatsch. Based out of [...]
CAS ETH in Digital Health 2024-2025
ETH Certificate in Advanced Studies Programme description The course looks at the globally rising numbers and costs of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in physical and [...]
New support for the leadership team of the CDHI
A warm welcome to Dr. Jan-Niklas Kramer, Innovation Manager at CSS, as our new Director of the CDHI. Together with Prof. Tobias Kowatsch (Scientific Director) and [...]
How can NCD services be more successful? – A guide for creating successful business models for NCD companies
80% of the Swiss health care costs are spent on non-communicable diseases (NCDs). This means every fourth person in Switzerland suffers at least from one NCD. Often, [...]
TrailBlazer: Predicting Success in Growth-stage Digital Health Companies
Even the most revolutionary digital therapeutics (DTx) cannot significantly impact patients' lives if they fail to align with the business interests of healthcare payers, such as insurers, [...]
DTx Book Sneek Peek – Chapter 9: Conversational agents on smartphones and the web
Here is a sneak peek into Chapter 9 of our new book Digital Therapeutics for Mental Health and Addiction: The State of the Science and Vision [...]
Healthy Longevity Talent Incubator at NUS School of Medicine
We are thrilled to announce that our doctoral researcher Wasu Mekniran has been selected as one of 40 early career professionals from 21 countries to [...]
CDHI Quarterly Meeting: Research Updates from the CORE AI & Digital Biomarker, Acoustic and Inflammatory Biomarkers , 4 July 2023
In the second CDHI Quarterly Meeting 2023 the focus was on research updates from the CORE AI & Digital Biomarker, Acoustic and Inflammatory Biomarkers. Agenda: [...]
New Publication: Wearable-based accelerometer activity profile as digital biomarker of inflammation, biological age, and mortality
Repeated disruptions in circadian rhythms are associated with implications for health outcomes and longevity. The utilization of wearable devices in quantifying circadian rhythm to elucidate [...]
Robot-assisted Therapy Summer School, June 12-16, 2023, Brissago, Switzerland
Tobias Kowatsch was invited to join and contribute to the Summer School "Towards a Continuum of Robot-assisted Therapy" (TCRT) with his research on Computers are Social Actors. [...]
Spring Doctoral Seminar 2023 in Steckborn
From 7 to 8 June, our research team enjoyed an inspiring doctoral seminar at the Lake of Constanze in Steckborn in the beautiful See & [...]
Guest lecture on Data Standardization of Digital Health Technologies Used in Clinical Trials: Zahra Karimaddini, 27 June 2023
Tuesday, 27 June 2023, 5 PM CEST/ 3PM GMT About Zahra Karimaddini Zahra Karimaddini, PhD, has a background in computational biology, data science and personalized [...]
Keynote and Digital Therapeutics workshop by Tobias Kowatsch, Reykjavik University, Iceland, 1 June 2023
Today, Tobias Kowatsch was invited by Prof. Stefán Ólafsson from Reykjavik University to talk about digital therapeutics (DTx) for healthy longevity and to give a workshop [...]
DTx Book Sneek Peek – Chapter 8: A digital therapeutic alliance in digital mental health
Here is a sneak peek into Chapter 8 of our new book Digital Therapeutics for Mental Health and Addiction: The State of the Science and Vision [...]
DTx Workshop by Kerstin Denecke and Tobias Kowatsch, MIE2024, Gothenburg, Sweden, 23 May 2023
Today, Prof. Dr. Kerstin Denecke and Tobias Kowatsch conducted a DTx workshop at the Medical Informatics Europe (MIE) 2023 in Gothenburg, Sweden. Non-communicable diseases (NCDs), such [...]
Announcement of the winners of the 2023 EMEA Garmin Health Research Grant
We are very happy to announce that Marc-Robin Grüner, Anja Bischof and Prof. Dr. Tobias Kowatsch are among the winners of the 2023 EMEA Garmin Health [...]
CDHI at HSGforscht!, 13 May 2023
Last weekend we had the pleasure to present our research at HSGforscht! at the University of St.Gallen to the public. Luisa Lager, Marc-Robin Grüner and [...]