An academic medical center in Boston, Harvard Medical School's original teaching hospital, home to the largest hospital-based research program.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health / Harvard University / Boston Children's Hospital / Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School / Broad Institute / Ludwig Center at Harvard
Released August 18, 2026
Pan-cancer clinico-genomic model for treatment response and survival prediction, transferring zero-shot to unseen hospitals and cancer types.
Fraunhofer MEVIS / RWTH Aachen University / Hannover Medical School / Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School / Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin / Goethe University Frankfurt / University of Tübingen / Siemens Healthineers / Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg / Fraunhofer Institute for Toxicology and Experimental Medicine ITEM
Released August 17, 2026
Medical imaging foundation model unifying pathology and radiology, serving classification and segmentation on 2D, 3D and gigapixel inputs.
University of California, Davis / Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School / Brown University / Emory University / Georgia Institute of Technology
Released July 27, 2026
Intracortical speech brain-to-text decoder jointly pretrained across six BCI users, with over 50% lower relative word error than per-user models.
Broad Institute / Howard Hughes Medical Institute / Harvard University / Harvard Medical School / MIT / Massachusetts General Hospital / The Jackson Laboratory / University of Minnesota
Released February 20, 2026
Prime editing efficiency prediction from pegRNA sequence, with every biochemical step of the editing mechanism modeled as its own learned rate.
Gut microbiome foundation model pretrained on human shotgun metagenomes, learning species-level taxonomic representations for disease prediction.
Johns Hopkins University / Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School / Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance / University College London
Released August 30, 2025
Modality-agnostic foundation model for human brain imaging that runs five core neuroimaging tasks across uncalibrated CT and MRI without retraining.
Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School / Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma
Released August 24, 2025
Generalist MRI vision-language foundation model that handles reconstruction, segmentation, abnormality detection, and report generation in one model.
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.
Massachusetts General Hospital / MIT CSAIL / Duke University
Released May 16, 2025
Surgical video foundation model pretrained by entropy-maximizing compression on 0.78M unlabeled frames from 2,122 minimally invasive procedures.
MIT CSAIL / Harvard Medical School / Massachusetts General Hospital / Boston Children's Hospital
Released March 20, 2025
2D/3D X-ray to volume registration for surgical navigation, aligning live fluoroscopy to preoperative CT or MRI after a five-minute fine-tune.
Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School / Inselspital, Bern University Hospital / University of Cologne / University Hospital Augsburg / ShanghaiTech University
Released March 4, 2025
PET/CT foundation model pretrained by cross-modal masked autoencoding on whole-body scans, for tumor lesion segmentation and lymphoma staging.
Genomic language model continue-pretrained on 13 million UK Biobank variants, giving variant-aware DNA embeddings for gene function and expression.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute / Wake Forest University School of Medicine / Massachusetts General Hospital
Released February 11, 2025
865M-parameter multimodal foundation model that fuses 3D low-dose chest CT with clinical data to answer 17 lung cancer screening questions.
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.
Profluent / University of Washington / Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School / Harvard University
Released January 6, 2025
CRISPR-Cas PAM specificity prediction directly from Cas protein sequence, plus computational evolution of Cas9 variants toward a chosen PAM.
Lehigh University / University of Georgia / Stanford University / Massachusetts General Hospital / University of Pennsylvania / University of Central Florida / UC Santa Cruz / UTHealth Houston / Mayo Clinic / Samsung Research America
Released August 7, 2024
Open-source, lightweight generalist vision-language foundation model for diverse biomedical imaging and text tasks.
Interactive foundation model for biomedical image segmentation, prompted with scribbles, clicks, and bounding boxes to segment unseen structures.
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.
Cornell University / Weill Cornell Medicine / MIT CSAIL / Massachusetts General Hospital
Released May 22, 2024
Keypoint-based foundation model for brain MRI registration, pretrained on over 100,000 3D volumes for rigid, affine, and deformable alignment.
University of Washington / Harvard Medical School / Massachusetts General Hospital / University of Geneva / Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research / Recursion Pharmaceuticals
Released March 17, 2024
Bulk tumor transcriptome model ensembling hundreds of variational autoencoders into interpretable cancer-specific latent spaces for 18 cancers.
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.
MIT CSAIL / Cornell University / Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School
Released April 12, 2023
Medical image segmentation model that solves unseen segmentation tasks in context from a few labeled examples, with no retraining or fine-tuning.