Digital pathology and AI, explained without the hype.

Dr. Aleks Żuraw, DVM, PhD, DACVP, is a board-certified veterinary pathologist who applies her pathology expertise to toxicologic pathology and drug safety. She is the founder of Digital Pathology Place, an education and media company for people who work with tissue.

She graduated in veterinary medicine in Wrocław, Poland, and completed her pathology residency and PhD in Berlin, Germany. She then joined a digital pathology company, where she designed image analysis algorithms for clinical trials, quantified tissue biomarkers for immuno-oncology, and trained pathologists and computer scientists at pharmaceutical companies. That work became Digital Pathology Place. She has lived and worked in six countries.

Today she hosts the Digital Pathology Podcast (255+ episodes), wrote Digital Pathology 101, now in its second edition, and runs the Tissue Science Club community. She has co-authored peer-reviewed papers on digital pathology and image analysis and speaks at STP, ESTP, ACVP and the Digital Pathology & AI Congress, including the 2025 keynote in London. Her focus: helping professionals understand AI well enough to use it, and to push back when a tool doesn't hold up.