A graduate research university in Abu Dhabi devoted entirely to artificial intelligence, from machine learning to computational biology.
Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence / Weizmann Institute of Science
Released July 8, 2026
Transcription factor binding prediction pairing DNA sequence with base-resolution methylation and DNase accessibility for cell-type-specific calls.
University of California, San Diego / Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence / Carnegie Mellon University / Scripps Research
Released February 5, 2026
Single-cell foundation model running self-attention across all 27,874 human genes, with Gene Ontology priors injected through a graph network.
Weizmann Institute of Science / Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence / NVIDIA
Released January 14, 2026
Generative transformer foundation model for continuous glucose monitoring, forecasting glycemia and stratifying health risk from raw glucose traces.
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University / genbio.ai / Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
Released December 17, 2025
Multimodal protein language model that adds a continuous-token diffusion head to a discrete pLM, modeling structure without vector quantization.
Carnegie Mellon University / Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence / Intel
Released October 13, 2025
Retrieval-augmented inverse folding model that fuses structural motif retrieval with a hybrid attention decoder to design sequences for a backbone.
Ecole Polytechnique / National Technical University of Athens / Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
Released September 29, 2025
Single-cell multimodal LLM generating natural-language descriptions of cell type, tissue, disease, and pathway activity from scRNA-seq profiles.
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.
genbio.ai / Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence / Carnegie Mellon University
Released July 7, 2025
Spatial transcriptomics foundation model pretrained on 22 million cells, encoding each cell with its neighbors for niche and density prediction.
Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence / Corniche Hospital
Released February 20, 2025
Vision-language foundation model for fetal ultrasound, pretrained on 210,035 image-text pairs for plane classification, biometry, and segmentation.
IRA Labs / Marchuk Institute of Numerical Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences / Lomonosov Moscow State University / Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
Released February 12, 2025
Self-supervised CT foundation model that segments pathology as visual anomalies, pretrained on 30,000 unlabeled 3D volumes with no annotation.
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.
Carnegie Mellon University / University of Pittsburgh / Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
Released January 18, 2025
Adenylation domain substrate specificity prediction from frozen ESM-2 embeddings, with zero-shot calls on substrates absent from training.
Bilingual Arabic-English medical multimodal model built on Llama 3.1 for radiology, CT, and histology image understanding and question answering.
genbio.ai / Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence / Carnegie Mellon University
Released December 5, 2024
Protein structure tokenizer that discretizes backbones into 512 discrete tokens and reconstructs all-atom structures, including side chains.
University of Pittsburgh / Carnegie Mellon University / Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence / Petuum
Released November 23, 2024
Vector-based virtual screening model that co-embeds proteins and small molecules so a drug-target interaction reduces to a single dot product.
University of California, San Diego / Scripps Research / Howard Hughes Medical Institute / Carnegie Mellon University / Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
Released October 6, 2024
Multi-modal protein foundation model aligning 3D structure and literature text to a sequence anchor through contrastive pretraining.
BioMap / Tsinghua University / Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
Released June 9, 2024
Scaling-law study of protein language models identifying compute-optimal training for causal and masked objectives on 939 million protein sequences.
Zhejiang University of Technology / BioMap / Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
Released May 18, 2023
Protein model quality assessment predicting per-residue lDDT for monomer and multimer interface models from graph-coupled ESM embeddings.