Research Institute

Helmholtz Munich

A German biomedical research center pursuing better health in a changing environment, spanning diabetes, lung disease, and computational health.

Location: Munich, Germany
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14 models(7 Single-cell, 4 Pathology, 3 Protein, 2 Imaging, 2 Small molecule, 2 Spatial omics, 1 RNA)

Models (14)

HASSL

TUM.ai / Technical University of Munich / LMU Munich / Helmholtz Munich

Released July 5, 2026

2

Hierarchy-aware self-supervised model for single-cell microscopy that preserves morphological structure suppressed by imaging-modality confounders.

ImagingSingle-cell

PertOmni

Yale University / Pennsylvania State University / Helmholtz Munich

Released June 26, 2026

1

Contrastive multimodal model for perturbation screens, aligning transcriptomic signatures with text and cell-painting image embeddings.

Single-cellSmall molecule

MAE3D-OpenCell

Helmholtz Munich

Released June 22, 2026

1

Self-supervised 3D masked autoencoder for volumetric fluorescence microscopy, aligned to ESM2 embeddings to predict protein localization.

ImagingSingle-cell

GenBloom

Helmholtz Munich / LMU Munich

Released May 28, 2026

3

Genetically aligned foundation model for blood smear cytology that links single-cell morphology to the chromosomal aberrations behind AML and APL.

Pathology

Phoenix

Helmholtz Munich / Technical University of Munich

Released April 29, 2026

Virtual spatial transcriptomics foundation model predicting pan-cancer, spatially-resolved single-cell gene expression from H&E histology slides.

PathologySpatial omics

FrustrAI-Seq

Helmholtz Munich

Released February 5, 2026

17

Protein language model that predicts per-residue local energetic frustration directly from sequence, covering whole proteomes and disordered regions.

Protein

ProtProfileMD

Helmholtz Munich / Rostlab / Seoul National University

Released January 22, 2026

336

LoRA adapter on ProstT5 predicting per-residue distributions over Foldseek 3Di tokens, capturing conformational flexibility from MD trajectories.

Protein

CellHermes

Tongji University / Helmholtz Munich

Released November 28, 2025

27530

Single-cell foundation model adapting LLaMA-3.1-8B with LoRA, recasting transcriptomes and protein interaction networks as natural-language Q&A pairs.

Single-cellRNA

SIGMMA

Helmholtz Munich / Wellcome Sanger Institute

Released November 19, 2025

1

Multi-modal contrastive model that aligns H&E histopathology with spatial transcriptomics across tissue scales to predict gene expression from images.

PathologySpatial omics

scConcept

Theis Lab / Helmholtz Munich

Released October 14, 2025

810037

Single-cell foundation model learning technology-agnostic cell embeddings by contrasting cell views rather than reconstructing gene expression counts.

Single-cell

FLOWR.root

Pfizer / Jagiellonian University Medical College / Helmholtz Munich / Technical University of Munich

Released October 2, 2025

3138

SE(3)-equivariant flow-matching model for pocket-aware 3D ligand generation, predicting binding affinity and confidence in the same network.

Small moleculeProtein

Scooby

Technical University of Munich / Helmholtz Munich / Harvard Medical School / Broad Institute / Harvard University

Released October 1, 2025

1251369

Predicts single-cell scRNA-seq coverage and scATAC-seq insertion profiles from DNA sequence, adapting the Borzoi trunk with a cell-specific decoder.

Single-cell

TITAN

Mahmood Lab / Brigham and Women's Hospital / Helmholtz Munich / University of Tokyo

Released November 29, 2024

218124.5K357

Slide-level pathology foundation model turning whole-slide images into reusable embeddings for classification, retrieval, and report generation.

Pathology

Nicheformer

Helmholtz Munich / Technical University of Munich

Released April 17, 2024

144869167

Transformer foundation model pretrained on 110M single-cell and spatial transcriptomics profiles, transferring spatial context to dissociated cells.

Single-cell