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Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) / Jilin University / University of Auckland / Shanghai AI Laboratory / Hunan University / Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Released August 13, 2026
Infrared spectroscopy foundation model pretrained on 60 million simulated spectra, then adapted to real FTIR measurements of molecules and mixtures.
West China Hospital of Sichuan University / Sichuan University / Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) / Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital / Southwest Medical University / Shenzhen Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital
Released August 4, 2026
Breast-specialized multimodal pathology foundation model for core needle biopsy diagnosis, with conformal risk control gating report release.
South China University of Technology / University of Leicester / University of Oxford / Hong Kong University of Science and Technology / ZoyMed
Released August 2, 2026
Breast cancer histopathology foundation model distilled from three general-purpose PFMs, over 30x smaller with comparable balanced accuracy and AUC.
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology / Jilin University / University of Sydney
Released July 24, 2026
Molecular glue degrader design model that jointly generates the glue molecule and the E3 ligase-target ternary complex from unbound monomers.
Protein function captioning model fusing sequence, Foldseek structure tokens, and text through a BLIP-2 Q-Former for open-ended free-text annotation.
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology / Hunan University / Institute of Materia Medica, CAMS & PUMC / Xiamen University / Shanghai AI Laboratory
Released June 18, 2026
NMR foundation model trained on 158 million simulated 1H and 13C spectra, transferring simulation-learned representations to real experimental data.
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology / Southern Medical University / Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Molecular Tumor Pathology / Fourth Military Medical University / University of Science and Technology of China / Zhejiang University / HaploX Biotechnology / Hebei Medical University / 900th Hospital of the PLA Joint Logistic Support Force / Shandong Provincial Qianfoshan Hospital
Released May 25, 2026
Lung pathology foundation model adapted from Virchow2 on whole-slide images, validated across 32 tasks spanning the lung diagnostic workflow.
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.
Transcription factor binding site prediction model that refines a DNABERT-2 backbone with contrastive learning across diverse TFBS types.
The University of Hong Kong / City University of Hong Kong / Hong Kong University of Science and Technology / Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, CAS / BayVax Biotech Limited
Released August 27, 2025
Antibody-antigen binding free energy predictor fusing ESM-2 sequence embeddings with persistent homology and interface geometry via cross-attention.
The University of Hong Kong / Hong Kong Generative AI Research and Development Center / Hong Kong University of Science and Technology / BayVax Biotech Limited
Released August 16, 2025
B-cell epitope predictor pairing CNN and Transformer branches over protein language model embeddings to score linear and conformational epitopes.
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.
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.
Westlake University / Zhejiang University / Hong Kong University of Science and Technology / Chinese Academy of Sciences / Southern University of Science and Technology / Shanghai AI Laboratory / Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Released June 26, 2025
Single-cell perturbation response prediction using dual conditional diffusion bridges that link unpaired control and perturbed populations.
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.
Protein function annotation model predicting Gene Ontology terms with direct preference optimization layered on a frozen ESM-C sequence encoder.
Tri-modal pathology foundation model aligning whole-slide images, transcriptomes, and diagnostic reports, and running on any subset of the three.
Sparse-view CBCT reconstruction foundation model pretrained on 8,407 CT volumes, recovering full 3D anatomy from as few as six X-ray projections.
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology / Weill Cornell Medicine / Harvard University
Released April 30, 2025
Universal foundation model that jointly generates diagnostic text and segments the corresponding targets across ten biomedical imaging modalities.
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) / South China Normal University / City University of Hong Kong / Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Released April 12, 2025
Multimodal 3D genome foundation model pairing Hi-C contact maps with epigenomic tracks, pretrained on over one million paired samples.
Microsoft Research AI for Science / Peking University / Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) / Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications / Huazhong University of Science and Technology / Tsinghua University / Microsoft Research Asia
Released March 9, 2025
Generative foundation model that co-generates sequence and 3D coordinates for proteins, small molecules, and crystals under functional objectives.
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) / Hong Kong University of Science and Technology / Shenzhen Bay Laboratory
Released March 2, 2025
Structure-based 3D molecule generation that denoises a ligand at atom level and motif level at once, conditioned on the target protein's pocket.
Shanghai AI Laboratory / Fourth Military Medical University / Tsinghua University / University of Science and Technology of China / Hong Kong University of Science and Technology / Peking University / Shanghai Jiao Tong University / SenseTime
Released March 2, 2025
Histopathology foundation model pretrained on 300K whole-slide images across 20 tissue types and validated on 112 clinical-grade downstream tasks.
Zhejiang University / University of Electronic Science and Technology of China / Alibaba / Hong Kong University of Science and Technology / National University of Singapore
Released February 14, 2025
Medical vision-language model that unifies image comprehension and generation in one autoregressive transformer via heterogeneous LoRA adapters.
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.
Alibaba Cloud / Beijing Zhongguancun Academy / Zhongguancun Institute of Artificial Intelligence / University of Science and Technology of China / Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen / Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) / Hong Kong University of Science and Technology / Mila / Université de Montréal / HEC Montréal / Carnegie Mellon University
Released February 11, 2025
Long-context generative genomic foundation model with a 98k-nucleotide window, trained on 386 billion bases of eukaryotic DNA for sequence design.
Protein cleavage site prediction that generalizes to proteolytic enzymes unseen in training by encoding active-site chemistry alongside sequence.
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.
DNA foundation model encoding the genome as probabilistic allele frequencies from the 1000 Genomes Project. 86M parameters, single-nucleotide tokens.
Zhejiang University / Alibaba Cloud / University of Science and Technology of China / Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
Released December 28, 2024
Protein-text foundation model aligning sequences with function descriptions through segment-wise objectives for static and dynamic functional sites.
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) / McGill University
Released December 24, 2024
Chromatin loop caller for Hi-C, Micro-C, DNA SPRITE, and single-cell contact maps, pairing axial attention with a U-Net to work at very low coverage.
Shanghai Jiao Tong University / Hong Kong University of Science and Technology / Hainan University / Sun Yat-sen University / McGill University / Mila / MIT
Released December 16, 2024
Geometric foundation model matching enzymes to the reactions they catalyze, trained on 1.5 million structure-informed enzyme-reaction pairs.
Shenzhen University / City University of Hong Kong / University of Nottingham Ningbo China / Stanford University / Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Released December 3, 2024
Whole-slide pathology assistant that states the morphological findings behind each diagnosis, trained on 180k VQA pairs from 9,850 gigapixel slides.
Zhejiang University / University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign / Shanghai Jiao Tong University / Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Released November 17, 2024
ECG foundation model that learns discrete rhythm tokens from noisy real-world recordings for arrhythmia classification and anomaly detection.
McGill University / Shanghai Jiao Tong University / Mila / Université de Montréal / Hong Kong University of Science and Technology / Institute for Protein Design / Yale University / Northeastern University / Broad Institute / MIT / Google DeepMind
Released November 10, 2024
De novo enzyme design conditioned on the reaction to be catalysed: substrate and product SMILES in, catalytic pocket, enzyme, and docked complex out.
Baidu / Beihang University / Shanghai Jiao Tong University / Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) / North Carolina State University / Nottingham Trent University / Silesian University of Technology / South China University of Technology
Released November 3, 2024
Chemical language model for molecular property prediction, pretrained on PubChem SMILES by masking whole functional groups rather than random tokens.
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology / Sun Yat-sen University
Released October 24, 2024
Region-aware bilingual medical multimodal LLM that handles image- and region-level vision-language tasks across eight imaging modalities.
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) / Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Released October 12, 2024
Multimodal protein model pairing a sequence encoder with a Gene Ontology branch, trained in recursive cycles that clean their own noisy labels.
McGill University / Shanghai Jiao Tong University / Mila / Université de Montréal / Hong Kong University of Science and Technology / Institute for Protein Design / Microsoft Research / Google DeepMind
Released October 1, 2024
Enzyme catalytic pocket design conditioned on a reaction: substrate and product in, pocket backbone, sequence, and EC class out.
Generalist medical vision-language foundation model with 40B parameters, spanning radiology, pathology, dermatology, retinography, and endoscopy.
Self-supervised pretraining framework for 3D medical image encoders that learns anatomy by predicting where a sub-volume sits within a CT scan.
Imperial College London / University of Oxford / University of Science and Technology of China / Peking University / Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Released December 3, 2023
Vision-language pretraining for 3D CT volumes, aligning scans with their radiology reports for zero-shot classification, retrieval, and segmentation.