A French consortium to accelerate precision medicine through AI-enabled digital pathology
Meet the people behind PortrAIt.
A landmark government-endorsed program to structure and scale the digital pathology ecosystem in France to augment and improve the diagnosis of cancer.
Vision
PortrAIt aims to accelerate digital transformation that will:
Provide access to better, more targeted testing and treatments for patients, no matter their location.
Democratize access to care and provide more precision medicine solutions for doctors and hospitals.
Improve productivity and reduce inter-physician variability.
Support the discovery of new therapeutic pathways.
Photography from Humanity: The people at the heart of AI-Augmented healthcare
Solutions
Diagnostic solutions to help precision pathology
PortrAIt will enable pathology labs and research hospitals across France to work with technology leaders to develop and deploy digital pathology AI tools in three main areas:
01
Disease diagnosis
Detection of disease, tumor grading or feature counting.
02
Biomarker discovery
Identify patients that may benefit from targeted therapies.
03
Outcome prediction
Characterize a patient’s risk or prognosis more fully.
The backbone of the national digital pathology sector
30+ centres for AI diagnostics deployment
Owkin
Tribun Health
Cypath
Gustave Roussy
Léon Bérard
Unicancer
33 million euro project funded by BPI
This project was financed by the government within the framework of France 2030 and by the European Union - Next Generation EU within the framework of the France Relance Plan.
Deliverable timeline
Press release
March 30, 2023
Owkin lance PortrAIt, un consortium pour faire de la France un leader mondial dans l’utilisation de l’IA pour diagnostiquer et traiter les maladies
Nouveau projet de consortium financé par Bpifrance à hauteur de 33m d'euros et dirigé par la société française Owkin, specialisée dans la biotechnologie de l’IA.
