Wednesday 30 September

Location: Room S3

Topic 4: Virtual Controls and Group Housing
08:15 - 08:30 | TBC
08:30 - 09:00 | Talk on rat group housing - MERCK experience - Christian Brenneis
09:00 - 09:30 | Group housing of nonhuman primates from a pathologist’s perspective - Ann-Kathrin Haverkamp
09:30 - 10:00 | Virtual Controls - TBC

10:00 - 10:30 | Morning Coffee Break | Room S4 - Exhibition

10:30 - 11:00 | Role of Digital Pathology and Computational Pathology in 3R - Frank Bringezu
11:00 - 11:30 | Talk on virtual controls with part on Tox path challenges - Laura Boone & Alok Sharma
11:30 - 12:00 | Panel Discussion - All speakers

12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch Break | Room S4 - Exhibition

13:00 - 14:00 | Poster Session - Meet the authors

Topic 5: AI-empowered toxicologic pathology
Block 1: Introduction - what's in it for me?
14:00 - 14:30 | Keynote - Making AI accessible to pathologists as end users - Andrew Janowczyk 
14:30 - 14:50 | Explainable AI: what has my algorithm really learned? - Heike Marxfeld

Block 2: Case examples AI in histopathology
14:50 - 15:10 | Towards AI Models for Preclinical Drug Safety Assessment - Simone DeBrot & Guillaume Jaume 
15:10 - 15:30 | Examples of AI qualification for image analysis - Frederic Gervais
15:30 - 15:50 | Example: Pathologist's feedback on AI decision support - Sabina Soldati

15:50 - 16:20 | Afternoon Coffee Break | Room S4 - Exhibition

16:20 - 16:40 | Pathology Reimagined: When AI Joins the Workflow - Lise Bertrand

Block 3: From Pixels to Paragraphs: Expanding AI’s Role in Pathology
16:40 - 16:50 | LLMs in various aspects of pathology practice - Aleksandra Zuraw
16:50 - 17:00 | Use of AI in manuscript preparation - an editor's perspective - Kevin Keane

Block 4: Collaborative Science: Aligning Data and Standards for Innovation
17:00 - 17:10 | IMI Big Picture update and what's next - TBC
17:10 - 17:20 | IQ Consortium: Integrating AI in regulatory pathology - TBC

17:20 - 17:35 | Coffee Break | Room S4 - Exhibition

Block 5: Townhall
17:35 - 18:35 | Townhall: Deployment of AI tools in regulatory toxicologic pathology - are we there yet? - Gabriele Pohlmeyer, Charles Halsey, TBC