2026 Summer School on Machine Learning for Healthcare and Biology
7-9 July 2026, The Alan Turing Building,
The University of Manchester
The Summer School is over for another year!
After three successful events between 2023 and 2025, the ELLIS Society approved our fourth summer school on Machine Learning for Healthcare and Biology. As in previous years, this three-day event brought participants up-to-speed on the latest methods and technologies in machine learning with a focus on healthcare and biology. Participants also had an opportunity to showcase their work at our research poster session.
The summer school programme is available here. We will have photos and videos from this year very soon but but in the meantime you can explore our recordings from previous years here.
Speakers:
Xu Chen, Queen Mary University of London: AI-Cardiac Digital Twins for Personalised Therapy
Sokratia Georgaka, The University of Manchester: Transformers and LLMs for biological data
Mobarak Hoque, The University of Manchester: Safety-Aligned Agentic AI for Clinical Decision Support
Raghav Mehta, Imperial College London: Fantastic Counterfactuals and how to utilize them in Medical Image Analysis
Goran Nenadic, The University of Manchester: Real-world validation of healthcare LLMs
Ewa Szczurek, Helmholtz Munich: Controllable generative AI for antimicrobial peptide design
Chris Tomlinson, UCL: Foundation models of electronic health records
Caroline Weis, GSK: AI4Science at GSK
Summer School Organisers:
Mauricio A Álvarez
ELLIS Manchester Summer School Scholarship - currently closed to new applications
ELLIS Manchester is committed to fostering diversity and inclusivity in research and acknowledges
the financial challenges faced by researchers from economically disadvantaged backgrounds.
To address this issue, we are able to offer “ELLIS Manchester Scholarships”, aimed at providing financial assistance to applicants from a minority group facing economic hardships during their research pursuits.
This scholarship means that successful candidates can receive funding from The University of Manchester to cover the registration fee and accommodation for the 2026 summer school. Please note: you will need to cover other costs including travel, visas etc from other funds. The scholarship is a first-come first-served basis and will be provided on merit following review by the summer school organisers. Full details can be found here.
Please note: at the moment, all funding has been allocated and we will not be able to respond to new enquiries.
Summer School recordings
ELLIS Manchester Summer School 2025
