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RNA co-design model generating sequence and 3D backbone together, with SE(3) flow matching over coupled base-centered and sugar-centered frames.
Valhalla Technology / New York University / Peking University / Yonsei University / Chinese University of Hong Kong
Released August 18, 2026
Designs RNA and DNA aptamers against protein targets by backpropagating binding and anti-binding objectives through a frozen all-atom predictor.
Shanghai AI Laboratory / Fudan University / University of Sydney / Shanghai Jiao Tong University / University of Southern California / Shanghai Innovation Institute / University of Electronic Science and Technology of China / Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences / Nanjing Normal University / Westlake University / Shenzhen Loop Area Institute / Chinese University of Hong Kong / Tsinghua University
Released July 30, 2026
Genomic foundation model on a Mamba, attention, and mixture-of-experts backbone, with 1M-token context for variant scoring and regulatory DNA design.
Generative framework that learns a developmental vector field from scRNA-seq snapshots, coupling flow matching with molecular RNA kinetics.
Stanford University / University of Tokyo / RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project / Chinese University of Hong Kong
Released May 1, 2026
Reasoning-guided foundation model for de novo antibody CDR design, pairing a multimodal LLM understanding expert with a Boltz-1 diffusion expert.
Self-supervised SE(3) geometric pretraining for protein backbone generators, improving designability, motif scaffolding, and conformational ensembles.
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology / Sun Yat-sen University / Southern Medical University / Chinese University of Hong Kong
Released November 1, 2025
Histopathology foundation model extracting general-purpose features from H&E patches by distilling the UNI, Phikon, and CONCH pathology encoders.
Northwestern Polytechnical University / National University of Singapore / Chinese University of Hong Kong / Chinese Academy of Sciences
Released October 29, 2025
Enzyme backbone design model that adds substrate and catalytic-site control to a pretrained SE(3) flow-matching generator via a lightweight adapter.
Chinese University of Hong Kong / Tencent AI Lab / Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Released October 12, 2025
Protein structure autoencoder compressing backbone coordinates into a latent space, paired with a latent diffusion model for generative design.
Chinese University of Hong Kong / Hangzhou Institute of Medicine, CAS
Released October 3, 2025
Structure-conditioned fine-tune of ESM2 for protein mutation-effect prediction, matching ESM3-level accuracy after roughly an hour of fine-tuning.
University of Pennsylvania / Chinese University of Hong Kong / Stanford University / Hangzhou Institute of Medicine, CAS
Released September 23, 2025
De novo antibiotic design framework coupling a 6.4B-parameter protein language model with reinforcement learning to generate antimicrobial peptides.
Biomap Research / Chinese University of Hong Kong / Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
Released September 2, 2025
Transcriptome-guided diffusion model generating Cell Painting images for unseen perturbations, improving MOA retrieval accuracy by 16.9% over IMPA.
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology / Southern Medical University / Sun Yat-sen University / Chinese University of Hong Kong / The University of Hong Kong / Chinese PLA General Hospital
Released August 10, 2025
Multi-sequence MRI foundation model pretrained on 336,476 volumetric scans, ranking first on 41 of 44 downstream clinical benchmarks.
Shanghai AI Laboratory / Sun Yat-sen University / Chinese University of Hong Kong / Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Released June 29, 2025
EEG foundation model with cross-scale spatiotemporal tokenization and sparse structured attention, evaluated on 11 decoding tasks across 16 datasets.
Plasmid characterization and retrieval model aligning DNA sequences with property text across ten facets, from antimicrobial resistance to host range.
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology / University of Science and Technology of China / Chinese University of Hong Kong / Tencent
Released June 26, 2025
Text-prompted pathology image segmentation across 160 tissue, cell, and nuclei categories, replacing point and box inputs with natural language.
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology / Sun Yat-sen University / Macau University of Science and Technology / Jinan University / Zhejiang University School of Medicine / Chinese University of Hong Kong / Harvard University
Released June 24, 2025
Genome-anchored histopathology embeddings that predict molecular biomarkers, subtypes, and survival from whole-slide images alone at inference.
Chinese University of Hong Kong / MIT / University of California, San Diego / University of Amsterdam / University of Pennsylvania
Released June 17, 2025
MSA design model generating alignments from protein language model embeddings to improve folding accuracy on orphan and low-homology proteins.
Chinese University of Hong Kong / Massachusetts General Hospital / Yonsei University / University of Sydney / Peking University / University of Georgia / Lehigh University / Emory University
Released June 11, 2025
Spatiotemporal foundation model that learns representations directly from 4D functional MRI volumes for disease diagnosis and phenotype prediction.
National University of Singapore / University of Science and Technology of China / Chinese University of Hong Kong / Hokkaido University
Released February 18, 2025
3D molecule generation that writes a valid 1D SELFIES string with a pretrained language model, then predicts its conformer with a diffusion module.
Cell-free DNA methylation deconvolution at individual-read resolution, estimating cell-type proportions and condition-specific methylation profiles.
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology / Chinese University of Hong Kong / Tencent AI Lab / Sun Yat-sen University / Peking University Shenzhen Hospital / Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, CAS / Harvard University
Released February 12, 2025
Cervical cytology screening system pretrained on 127,471 whole-slide images from 48 centers, with test-time adaptation for new clinical sites.
Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence / Tencent AI Lab / Chinese University of Hong Kong / Beijing Institute of Technology
Released February 11, 2025
Antibody and TCR CDR sequence design by structure retrieval, matching query loops against solved CDR structures rather than generating residues.
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology / Harvard University / Chinese University of Hong Kong / Westlake University / Tencent YouTu Lab / Shenzhen People's Hospital / Queen Mary Hospital
Released January 26, 2025
Biomedical vision-language model aligning image regions to UMLS clinical concepts, for zero-shot diagnosis across 10 imaging modalities.
Chinese University of Hong Kong / Huawei / Technical University of Munich / University of Strasbourg / Shandong University / Chinese Academy of Sciences
Released January 20, 2025
Grounded multimodal language model for endoscopic surgery, supporting visual dialogue, region-based question answering, and bounding-box grounding.
Shanghai AI Laboratory / University of Science and Technology of China / University of Sydney / University of Toronto / Chinese University of Hong Kong / Shanghai Jiao Tong University / Fudan University / Shanghai Innovation Institute
Released December 26, 2024
Multi-omics instruction-tuned LLM that reads DNA, RNA, protein, and multi-molecule sequences and answers natural-language questions about them.
Chinese University of Hong Kong / Shanghai AI Laboratory / SenseTime
Released October 11, 2024
Masked-autoencoder foundation model for chest radiographs, self-supervised on 1.04 million unlabelled images for disease screening and localization.
Shanghai Jiao Tong University / Shanghai AI Laboratory / East China University of Science and Technology / Chinese University of Hong Kong / Chongqing Artificial Intelligence Research Institute of Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Released April 17, 2024
Protein language model pairing sequence with quantized local-structure tokens via disentangled attention, for zero-shot variant effect prediction.
Multi-modal ophthalmic foundation model for generalist eye AI, spanning fundus imaging and OCT for disease screening, segmentation, and biomarkers.
Endoscopy video foundation model that learns spatial-temporal representations from unlabeled clips for classification, segmentation, and detection.
ml4bio / Chinese University of Hong Kong / Fudan University / Shanghai AI Laboratory
Released August 6, 2022
RNA foundation model pretrained on 23.7 million non-coding RNA sequences, producing embeddings for structure prediction, annotation, and RNA design.