The rise of digital pathology has been shaped by landmark studies, ambitious collaborations and researchers willing to take a chance on an emerging field. Few careers reflect that journey as clearly as Professor Nasir Rajpoot’s.
In the second episode of our conversation, Professor Nasir Rajpoot explains how a million-dollar research project took him from Warwick to Qatar, and why he later returned to the UK on a third of the salary just as digital pathology began to gather momentum. He revisits Coventry’s pioneering validation study and subsequent transition to routine digital reporting, before taking us inside PathLAKE, the £25 million programme that helped digitise 25 pathology laboratories and unlocked vast datasets for computational pathology research.
The conversation also explores how those foundations enabled the development of CoBI, an AI tool designed to help pathologists distinguish between normal, non-neoplastic and neoplastic colon biopsies. Watch the full episode to hear the story behind some of the projects that helped establish the UK as a leader in digital and computational pathology, as well as the personal decisions that made them possible.
