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Anne Martel

Also known as Anne L Martel

Anne Martel is a medical imaging researcher whose AI work helps personalize cancer care. She earned a physics degree at King’s College London in 1987 and completed a PhD in medical physics and bioengineering at the University of Sheffield in 1992. She co-founded digital pathology software company Pathcore in 2006, then coauthored 2021 studies on whole-slide cancer detection and self-supervised histopathology. Sunnybrook appointed her to the Tory Family Chair in Oncology in 2022; by 2025, donor support and a 2021 Canada Foundation for Innovation grant had helped her team establish an AI Platform for Precision Medicine, and the Vector Institute made her a Faculty Member in October 2025. As of October 2026, she is a University of Toronto professor and Sunnybrook senior scientist whose AI research combines medical imaging with clinical text to support personalized cancer treatment.

Now at
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto and Vector Institute
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Timeline

  1. 1987–1992

    Physics and medical physics

    She earns a B.Sc. in physics at King’s College London in 1987 and completes a PhD in medical physics and bioengineering at the University of Sheffield in 1992.

  2. 2006

    Co-founding Pathcore

    In 2006, she co-founds Pathcore, a software company that develops workflow solutions for digital pathology.

  3. 2021

    Whole-slide cancer detection

    In 2021, she coauthors a Scientific Reports study that applies a binary cancer-detection network to whole-slide breast cancer images after neoadjuvant therapy. The study tests negative data sampling to reduce false positives.

  4. 2021

    Self-supervised pathology training

    In 2021, she coauthors a histopathology framework that pairs self-supervised pretext learning with teacher-student semi-supervised consistency training on unlabeled images.

  5. 2022

    Tory Family Chair in Oncology

    In 2022, Sunnybrook appoints her to the Tory Family Chair in Oncology, jointly shared by Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and the University of Toronto.

  6. By 2025

    AI precision medicine platform

    By 2025, a 2021 Canada Foundation for Innovation grant and donor support help Martel and her team establish Sunnybrook’s Artificial Intelligence Platform for Precision Medicine. The platform lets researchers train AI models on anonymized patient data.

  7. October 2025

    Vector Faculty Member

    In October 2025, Vector makes her a Faculty Member, one of 13 former Faculty Affiliates it promotes to Faculty Member status.

  8. As of October 2026

    Professor and senior scientist

    As of October 2026, she is Professor of Medical Biophysics at the University of Toronto, Senior Scientist in Physical Sciences at Sunnybrook Research Institute, and Tory Family Chair in Oncology. She is a Vector Faculty Member. Her research applies AI and machine learning to medical imaging for precision cancer diagnosis and treatment, and combines digital pathology and radiology with clinical text from patient reports to support personalized cancer care.

Career

  1. Since 2025Vector InstituteFaculty Member
  2. Since 2022Sunnybrook Health Sciences CentreTory Family Chair in Oncology
  3. Since 2022University of TorontoTory Family Chair in Oncology
  4. From 2006PathcoreCo-founder

Education

  1. 1992University of SheffieldPhD in medical physics and bioengineering
  2. 1987King's College LondonB.Sc. in physics

From the biography.

  1. 11% of AI doctorate holders from 2010 to 2016 founded or led a company or lab by 10 years after graduationIncludes Anne Martel. We estimate how often AI doctorate holders founded or led a company or lab by 10 years after graduation, how waiting times compare between founders and top jobs, and which universities trained the most.
  2. 23% of people shaping AI who left a university for a company later returned to a universityIncludes Anne Martel. We estimate that 468 of the 2,011 people shaping AI who left a university for a company (23%) later returned to a university after a median of 5 years, and 163 of 829 (20%) made the reverse round trip.
  3. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labsIncludes University of Toronto. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labs. We compare publishing careers, recent citations, dual appointments and job moves across 2,420 university researchers and 308 frontier-lab researchers.
  4. Of 943 people shaping AI who worked at Google, 446 work there nowIncludes Vector Institute. Our estimates of where the 943 people shaping AI who worked at Google and Google DeepMind work now: 446 at Google and 452 across 278 other organizations.

Colleagues

People with dated positions at the same organization in the same years.

Sources and credits

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  1. Anne Martel - Research research.sunnybrook.ca. Checked 21 October 2026.
  2. Anne Martel | Medical Biophysics medbio.utoronto.ca. Checked 21 October 2026.
  3. [2012.00617] Overcoming the limitations of patch-based learning to detect cancer in whole slide images arxiv.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  4. Overcoming the limitations of patch-based learning to detect cancer in whole slide images arxiv.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  5. [2102.03897] Self-supervised driven consistency training for annotation efficient histopathology image analysis arxiv.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  6. Self-supervised driven consistency training for annotation efficient histopathology image analysis arxiv.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  7. Dr. Anne Martel appointed to the Tory Family Chair in Oncology - Research research.sunnybrook.ca. Checked 21 October 2026.
  8. Sunnybrook Research Institute Impact Report 2025 - Sunnybrook Foundation foundation.sunnybrook.ca. Checked 21 October 2026.
  9. Vector Institute names 13 new Faculty Members, expanding core research leadership across Ontario vectorinstitute.ai. Checked 21 October 2026.
  10. Anne Martel: Using AI to personalize cancer treatment - Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence vectorinstitute.ai. Checked 21 October 2026.