A public research university in Montreal, pairing medicine, engineering, and computing to advance health research and AI-driven discovery.
Genomics foundation model that represents individual DNA fragments in a learned semantic space for cell-free DNA cancer detection and cell typing.
Multimodal diffusion model that co-designs protein sequence and 3D structure around cofactors and small molecules for de novo heme enzyme design.
Temporal diffusion framework for single-cell developmental dynamics, interpolating and forecasting cell states from irregularly sampled time series.
Concordia University / Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal / Mila / Khalifa University of Science and Technology / McGill University / Université de Montréal
Released February 3, 2026
Histopathology tissue detection model that segments whole-slide thumbnails in a single SAM2 forward pass, replacing patch-wise slide preprocessing.
Self-supervised foundation model for 3D brain MRI, learning transferable anatomical representations from unlabeled scans for disease classification.
Tri-modal contrastive model aligning protein structure, sequence, and text in a shared space for zero-shot cross-modal retrieval and classification.
University of Toronto / The Hospital for Sick Children / University of Cambridge / ETH Zurich / Vector Institute / Mila / McGill University / Caltech
Released July 16, 2025
Synthesizable 3D molecule generation that jointly samples building blocks, reactions, and atomic coordinates, returning a synthesis route per design.
Florida International University / University of Texas at Austin / University of Oxford / McGill University
Released June 15, 2025
Contrastive language-image model for fMRI functional decoding, predicting cognitive tasks, concepts, and domains from brain activation maps.
Mila / Université de Montréal / McGill University / IBM Research / HEC Montréal
Released May 30, 2025
Protein conformation ensemble generation aligned to force-field energies, calibrating an AlphaFold 3-style diffusion model against MD thermodynamics.
Tsinghua University / Microsoft Research AI for Science / McGill University / Mila
Released March 26, 2025
Structure-based drug design model pairing an autoregressive transformer for ligand graphs with a diffusion head for 3D binding-pose coordinates.
Text-to-protein generative model designing de novo sequences from plain-language function descriptions, with designs confirmed by crystallography.
Tsinghua University / Microsoft Research AI for Science / McGill University / Mila
Released February 7, 2025
Structure-based drug discovery transformer that handles protein-ligand docking and pocket-aware 3D molecule design in one pretrained model.
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.
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.
Mila / Université de Montréal / McGill University / University of Ottawa / National Research Council Canada / HEC Montréal
Released October 24, 2024
Protein conformational ensemble generator that fine-tunes ESM3 with masked discrete diffusion over structure tokens instead of 3D coordinates.
Codon-resolution language model suite pairing a bidirectional encoder with an autoregressive decoder over protein-coding sequences.
Single-cell foundation model built on MAMBA2 state-space blocks, reading all 60,530 genes of a transcriptome without variable-gene selection.
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.
Zhejiang University / Xuzhou Medical University / Shanghai Jiao Tong University / Harvard University / McGill University / Macao Polytechnic University
Released June 4, 2024
Structure-based molecular design that samples a quantum electron cloud in the protein pocket, then decodes it into ligands with a Llama-style model.
McGill University / Universidad Nacional de Colombia / Ecole Polytechnique / Mines Paris – PSL / Institut Curie / Inserm / Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry / Vanderbilt University
Released November 23, 2023
Structure-based RNA virtual screening that scores small molecules against a binding site's base-pairing graph, around 10,000x faster than docking.
Generative model of bacterial gene content that expands a handful of chosen KEGG modules into the full gene complement a viable cell would need.
McGill University / Mila / Université du Québec à Montréal / Institut Pasteur / Mines Paris – PSL
Released July 11, 2020
RNA virtual screening that reads a binding site's base-pairing graph and predicts the chemical fingerprint of its ligand to rank compound libraries.