Dr. Diego Chowell is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Immunology and Immunotherapy, Oncological Sciences, and Artificial Intelligence and Human Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York.
Routine blood tests and basic clinical data, collected for nearly every cancer patient worldwide, represent an underexplored resource for understanding systemic immune status and predicting response to therapy. These measurements capture critical aspects of inflammation, immune cell balance, and overall physiological condition, offering a cost-effective and scalable complement to tumor genomics and tissue-based biomarkers.
In this seminar, Dr. Diego Chowell will introduce SCORPIO, a machine learning system that leverages these widely available data to predict outcomes for immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) therapy across multiple cancer types. Validated in real-world settings and 10 phase 3 clinical trials, SCORPIO outperforms FDA-approved biomarkers and more complex machine learning models, highlighting the untapped potential of everyday clinical data to advance precision immuno-oncology.