A Harvard-affiliated academic medical center in Boston, pairing clinical medicine with computational pathology research on cancer diagnosis and care.
Transformer foundation model pretrained on a biomedical knowledge graph for zero-shot drug repurposing, target, and adverse-effect prediction.
Attention-based multiple instance learning heads for whole-slide pathology, pretrained on a 108-way pan-cancer slide classification task.
Mahmood Lab / Brigham and Women's Hospital / Harvard Medical School / Broad Institute / Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center / Stanford University / The Ohio State University / University of Tübingen
Released June 3, 2025
Spatial proteomics foundation model, marker-aware and panel-agnostic, pretrained on 47 million multiplexed tissue-imaging patches from 175 markers.
Harvard University / MIT / Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering / Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center / Harvard Medical School / Brigham and Women's Hospital / Mass General Brigham
Released May 23, 2025
Distribution-level representation learning that embeds whole cell populations, perturbation responses, and sequence sets, not individual data points.
Mahmood Lab / Brigham and Women's Hospital / Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School / Broad Institute / Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Released January 28, 2025
Slide-level pathology foundation model that encodes a whole-slide image of any size into one embedding, supervised by paired sequencing data.
Mass General Brigham / Maastricht University / Brigham and Women's Hospital / Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Harvard Medical School / Technical University of Munich
Released January 15, 2025
3D vision foundation model for computed tomography, contrastively pretrained on 148,000 scans for segmentation, triage, retrieval, and concept search.
Mass General Brigham / Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Brigham and Women's Hospital / Harvard Medical School / Boston Children's Hospital
Released December 2, 2024
Self-supervised vision foundation model for structural brain MRI, providing a reusable encoder for brain age, survival, and image classification.
Mahmood Lab / Mass General Brigham / Harvard Medical School / Brigham and Women's Hospital / Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Broad Institute / Harvard University / MIT / Helmholtz Munich / Technical University of Munich / Emory University / Pusan National University / University of Tokyo / National Cancer Center Japan
Released December 2, 2024
Histopathology patch encoder turning 512x512 tiles into 768-dimensional features, trained with a CoCa objective on 1.26 million captioned images.
Mahmood Lab / Brigham and Women's Hospital / Helmholtz Munich / University of Tokyo
Released November 29, 2024
Slide-level pathology foundation model turning whole-slide images into reusable embeddings for classification, retrieval, and report generation.
Harvard Medical School / Brigham and Women's Hospital / Harvard University / MIT / University Health Network / University of Toronto / Vector Institute / University of Edinburgh
Released November 3, 2024
DNA methylation foundation model over 49,156 array CpG sites. Imputes missing values, embeds samples, and predicts epigenetic age and disease risk.
Harvard Medical School / VA Boston Healthcare System / Brigham and Women's Hospital / Tsinghua University
Released October 14, 2024
Joint embedding space for common SNPs and free-text clinical concepts, aligned by contrastive learning over GWAS, biobank and knowledge-graph pairs.
Harvard Medical School / Brigham and Women's Hospital / Stanford University
Released September 4, 2024
Weakly supervised histopathology foundation model pretrained on 60,530 whole-slide images for cancer detection, prognosis, and molecular prediction.
Slide-level pathology foundation model that learns whole-slide embeddings by aligning multiple stains of the same tissue during pretraining.
Insilico Medicine / Brigham and Women's Hospital / Harvard Medical School
Released July 25, 2024
Multi-omics transformer generating transcriptomic, methylation and proteomic signatures for a given tissue, disease, age group, sex and compound.
Mahmood Lab / Brigham and Women's Hospital / Harvard Medical School / Massachusetts General Hospital / The Ohio State University
Released July 10, 2024
Multimodal vision-language copilot for pathology that answers open-ended questions about histology images and reasons about differential diagnoses.
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research / MIT CSAIL / MIT / Brigham and Women's Hospital / Harvard Medical School
Released April 17, 2024
Protein language model that predicts which of twelve subcellular compartments and biomolecular condensates a human protein partitions into.
Histopathology vision-language foundation model pretrained on 1.17 million image-caption pairs with contrastive and captioning objectives.
Harvard Medical School / Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Brigham and Women's Hospital / Massachusetts General Hospital / Maastricht University / Aarhus University / Stanford University
Released March 15, 2024
Self-supervised 3D CT foundation model that extracts general-purpose tumor representations for cancer imaging biomarker discovery and prognosis.
Oregon State University / University of Michigan / Brigham and Women's Hospital
Released July 17, 2023
Gut microbiome language model that reads a 16S sample as a sentence of taxa, producing context-sensitive embeddings that transfer across cohorts.