Jesper Kers, MD, PhD

Jesper Kers, MD, PhD, is a consultant pathologist specialized in kidney, immuno- and transplant pathology at the Amsterdam University Medical Centers locations AMC and VUmc, and the Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands. His consultation practice covers a large part of the Dutch Randstad conurbation as well as the Caribbean Islands. He studied medicine at the University of Amsterdam, postgraduate training at the French National Institute for Medical Research INSERM in Paris (France) and ULB’s Institute for Medical Immunology in Brussels (Belgium) and extended residency training (computational immunology) at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard University in Cambridge (US). Currently, Jesper leads a research group that investigates the use of decision support systems to improve the management of nephrological diseases with a focus on kidney transplant pathology. This includes the use of computer vision deep learning technologies to assess digitized whole slide kidney biopsy images. In 2023 he joined Aiosyn as a consultant to guide the implementation of computational renal pathology software in daily clinical practice.