A private research university in Evanston, Illinois, that pairs medicine and engineering with interdisciplinary work in the biosciences and AI.
Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Chicago / Northwestern University / University of Chicago
Released February 28, 2026
Large language model trained on functional genomics data to prioritize novel therapeutic targets from genome-wide CRISPR knockout screens.
Protein language model that emulates molecular dynamics, generating equilibrium conformational ensembles and multi-timescale dynamic trajectories.
Histology nuclei segmentation that adapts SAM to train on several datasets at once, aligning auxiliary domains without diluting the primary one.
University of Pittsburgh / Carnegie Mellon University / University of Chicago / Northwestern University / University of Kansas Medical Center / Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory / UC Berkeley
Released February 6, 2025
Autoregressive transformer pretrained on 2,000 hours of intracortical spiking activity, decoding motor intent across subjects, species, and tasks.
DOE Joint Genome Institute / Northwestern University / Johns Hopkins University / University of California, Merced / University of California, Berkeley / Miami University / Illumina
Released February 5, 2025
4B-parameter generative genome foundation model trained on assembled environmental metagenomes for microbial representation and de novo DNA design.
MIT / University of Washington / University of Tokyo / Northwestern University
Released December 22, 2024
Structure-to-sequence protein design network inverting trRosetta, predicting coevolution features from a backbone to generate stable sequences.
Glucose forecasting from continuous glucose monitor streams over a two-hour horizon. Cuts one-hour rMSE 48.51% on OhioT1DM without training on it.
Genomic language model that labels adapter sequences in nanopore direct-RNA reads base by base, then splits the chimeric reads those adapters create.
Protein conformational ensemble generation guided by experimental observables, steering a pretrained diffusion sampler toward Boltzmann statistics.
DNA embedding model built on DNABERT-2, using contrastive learning to cluster sequences by species for metagenomic binning without labeled data.
Spot detection for single-molecule RNA FISH and fluorescence microscopy, trained on a differentiable F1 approximation, needing no threshold tuning.
Multi-species genomic foundation model swapping k-mer tokenization for byte pair encoding, matching Nucleotide Transformer with 21x fewer parameters.
Bidirectional transformer for DNA using k-mer tokenization, fine-tunable for promoter, splice site, and transcription factor binding prediction.