A private research university in California pursuing discovery across medicine, engineering, and the sciences, with deep roots in AI research.
A Stanford research group building the theory and systems behind next-generation machine learning, from weak supervision to long-context models.
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A spatial proteomics lab at Stanford and KTH mapping where proteins live inside human cells, combining imaging, AI, and the Human Protein Atlas.
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City University of Hong Kong / The University of Hong Kong / Stanford University
Released August 31, 2026
Pocket-conditioned 3D ligand generator that steers flow matching with LLM-written chemical priors, for de novo design and scaffold hopping.
Nanyang Technological University / Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine / Stanford University / National University of Singapore / Shanghai East Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine / UTHealth Houston / Southeast University / Ningbo Hangzhou Bay Hospital / Changhai Hospital, Naval Medical University
Released August 17, 2026
Sequence-conditioned generative framework that reconstructs missing prostate MRI contrasts and restores artefact-degraded acquisitions.
Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University / Stanford University / Tsinghua University / Ant Group / Harvard Medical School / University of Chicago / Sichuan University / Chongqing Medical University / Peking University First Hospital / Shenzhen Children's Hospital / Shenzhen Maternity and Child Healthcare Hospital / Guiyang Maternal and Child Health Care Hospital / Inner Mongolia Maternity and Child Health Care Hospital
Released July 9, 2026
Vision-language model for neuroblastoma pathology that reads H&E slides with their reports to grade tumors, infer biomarkers and stratify risk.
Generative framework that learns a developmental vector field from scRNA-seq snapshots, coupling flow matching with molecular RNA kinetics.
Graph foundation model for fMRI brain networks, pretrained across 27 datasets with graph and language prompts for zero-shot disorder classification.
Multimodal Q-former that fuses DNA sequence, gene context, protein function, and text for zero-shot variant interpretation with a frozen LLM.
Stanford University / University of Tokyo / RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project / Chinese University of Hong Kong
Released May 1, 2026
Reasoning-guided foundation model for de novo antibody CDR design, pairing a multimodal LLM understanding expert with a Boltz-1 diffusion expert.
110M-parameter RNA language model that designs sequences from secondary structure, motif, and Gene Ontology constraints via discrete diffusion.
Generative pipeline for epitope-targeted de novo antibody (nanobody) CDR design that yields nanomolar binders from only dozens of designs per antigen.
Spatial transcriptomics foundation model pairing gene expression with H&E histology for spatial domain discovery and clinical outcome prediction.
Diffusion-transformer pathology model embedding H&E histology, RNA profiles, and clinical text in a latent space for zero-shot cross-modal synthesis.
Graph attention model that learns context-aware protein embeddings from protein-protein interaction, co-expression, and tissue association networks.
Protein-ligand binding affinity scorer using an SE(3)-equivariant graph network trained on 741,706 co-folded complexes with target-disjoint splits.
Masked DNA language model for regulatory genomics with a motif-discovery regularizer for zero-shot TF motif recovery and variant effect prediction.
Graph-attention model that predicts A-to-I RNA editing from sequence and secondary structure, treating RNA as a graph with base-pairing edges.
Spatial transcriptomics foundation model built on a lightweight graph convolutional network and trained by masked central-spot prediction.
Single-cell foundation model using tabular attention over context cells to predict responses to arbitrary perturbations without fine-tuning.
Flow-matching model for therapeutic peptide design that co-designs sequence, structure, and molecular surface to disrupt protein-protein interactions.
3D vision-language foundation model for abdominal CT, pretrained on scans, radiology reports, and EHR codes for zero-shot interpretation.
Enable Medicine / Stanford University / MD Anderson Cancer Center / University of Tübingen / The University of Hong Kong
Released December 12, 2025
Tissue imaging foundation model pretrained on matched H&E histology and spatial proteomics for cross-modal inference and zero-shot retrieval.
Hierarchical single-cell foundation model that turns scRNA-seq profiles into zero-shot donor-level embeddings for disease and biomarker prediction.
Denoising diffusion bridge model for peptide binder design that generates ligand surfaces and backbones complementary to a target receptor surface.
All-atom protein representation model that learns from each residue's strictly local atomic neighborhood, capturing side-chain geometry and chemistry.
Potts-model inverse folding that conditions on a structural ensemble rather than a single backbone, improving designability and self-consistency.
University of Pennsylvania / Chinese University of Hong Kong / Stanford University / Hangzhou Institute of Medicine, CAS
Released September 23, 2025
De novo antibiotic design framework coupling a 6.4B-parameter protein language model with reinforcement learning to generate antimicrobial peptides.
University Health Network / University of Toronto / Stanford University
Released September 21, 2025
Micronuclei instance segmentation for fluorescence microscopy, using an anchor-tuned Mask R-CNN to detect micronuclei and link them to parent nuclei.
DNA methylation foundation model that learns blood aging as a continuous ODE and prescribes sparse CpG edits for in-silico rejuvenation.
All-atom protein structure diffusion models for motif scaffolding and hotspot-conditioned complex generation, at 22M parameters.
University of North Carolina at Charlotte / Stanford University / University of Illinois Chicago / Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Released August 11, 2025
Retinal OCT vision-language model that writes layer-by-layer clinical summaries and assigns six-class disease labels from a single B-scan.
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China / University of Tsukuba / Stanford University / Harbin Medical University Cancer Hospital
Released July 28, 2025
Peptide toxicity prediction that fuses frozen ProtT5 residue embeddings with ESMFold-predicted structure in an E(3)-equivariant graph neural network.
Multi-modal protein language model using the MSA evolutionary profile as a reasoning step between structure and sequence. 650M outperforms ESM-3 1.4B.
Mutational effect predictor for protein-protein binding energy, matching the FoldX force field's accuracy with a 1,000x speed-up.
Stanford University / University of Florida
Released July 4, 2025
Conditional diffusion model for 7T brain MRI denoising that turns a single 5-minute gradient-echo scan into a four-repetition-quality image.
Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) / Singapore National Eye Centre / Duke-NUS Medical School / SingHealth / Singapore General Hospital / National Cancer Centre Singapore / National University of Singapore / Tsinghua University / Harvard Medical School / Stanford University / University of Birmingham / University of Nottingham / University of Calgary
Released June 30, 2025
Self-supervised medical imaging foundation model pretrained on 3.3 million CT, X-ray, ultrasound, pathology, OCT, fundus, and dermoscopy images.
Mahmood Lab / Brigham and Women's Hospital / Harvard Medical School / Broad Institute / Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center / Stanford University / The Ohio State University / University of Tübingen
Released June 3, 2025
Spatial proteomics foundation model, marker-aware and panel-agnostic, pretrained on 47 million multiplexed tissue-imaging patches from 175 markers.
Structure-based drug design by diffusing medicinal-chemistry fragments into a binding pocket, yielding synthesizable, selective, drug-like molecules.
Shanghai AI Laboratory / Fuzhou University / Shanghai Innovation Institute / Fudan University / Monash University / University of Washington / Stanford University
Released April 2, 2025
General medical vision-language model trained with reinforcement learning to reason step by step over medical images for diagnosis and visual QA.
Generative diffusion foundation model for human gait dynamics that estimates ground reaction forces from partial motion-capture kinematics.
Clinical imaging encoder multitask-pretrained across X-ray, mammography, dermoscopy, fundus, ultrasound, CT, and histopathology for few-shot transfer.
Stanford University / University of Washington / University of Oxford / Brotman Baty Institute for Precision Medicine / Chan Zuckerberg Biohub
Released February 26, 2025
Predicts haplotype-specific 3D genome organization and Hi-C contact maps from a single long-read Fiber-seq assay, using no DNA sequence as input.
Fixed-backbone protein sequence design that co-generates amino acid identity and sidechain conformation, with 49.7% sequence recovery on CATH 4.2.
Stanford University / The Catholic University of Korea / University of California, San Diego
Released February 1, 2025
Prostate cancer detection model for MRI and transrectal ultrasound, trained with patch-level contrastive learning across 4,401 patients.
Direct RNA nanopore basecaller that translates raw ionic-current signal into nucleotide sequence using a hybrid Mamba-Transformer backbone.
Peking University / Peking University Cancer Hospital & Institute / Peking Union Medical College Hospital / Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences / Stanford University / China Medical University / Nanchang People's Hospital / Yizhun Medical AI
Released January 12, 2025
Breast ultrasound generative foundation model that synthesizes conditioned images to train screening, diagnosis, and prognosis models.
Vision-language foundation model for precision oncology, pretrained on 50M pathology images and 1B text tokens via unified masked modeling.
Stanford University / Michigan State University / Central South University / Johns Hopkins University
Released January 6, 2025
Single-cell foundation model pretrained by federated learning, modeling expression as a cell-by-gene table rather than an ordered gene sentence.
Princeton University / BioMap / Zhejiang University / Stanford University
Released December 31, 2024
RNA foundation model unifying sequence representation, 3D structure prediction, and de novo design. Ranks first on 11 of 13 BEACON tasks.
Stanford University / Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory / University of California, Irvine / University of Tartu
Released December 25, 2024
Base-resolution chromatin accessibility model that factors out enzyme sequence bias to score regulatory variants and transcription factor footprints.
Carnegie Mellon University / Stanford University / KTH Royal Institute of Technology / Science for Life Laboratory / Uppsala University / Chan Zuckerberg Biohub
Released December 17, 2024
Cell type annotation from multiplexed tissue images, using a pretrained Vision Transformer ensemble that runs on new panels without fine-tuning.
Cryo-EM heterogeneous reconstruction that models particles as one of K neural fields, resolving compositional and conformational states ab initio.
Vision transformers trained on Human Protein Atlas fluorescence microscopy for subcellular protein localization and cell morphology representation.
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.
Stony Brook University / Harvard Medical School / Stanford University / Columbia University
Released November 22, 2024
Histopathology foundation model aligned to spatial transcriptomics by a cross-modal ranking loss, embedding H&E patches without gene input.
Patient-level foundation model that pools every cell in an scRNA-seq sample into one disease representation, trained on 24.3 million cells.
Sparse autoencoders on ESM-2 embeddings that expose thousands of interpretable features per layer, tied to binding sites, motifs, and domains.
Enable Medicine / Stanford University / University of Tübingen / Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center / University of Washington / Ochsner Health / University of Chicago
Released November 11, 2024
Virtual multiplex immunofluorescence staining from H&E histopathology, imputing the expression and spatial localization of 50 protein biomarkers.
Contrastive dual-encoder aligning T-cell receptor CDR3 and peptide epitope sequences in one latent space to rank which receptors bind which antigens.
Shanghai AI Laboratory / Xiamen University / East China Normal University / Stanford University / Monash University
Released October 15, 2024
Vision-language assistant that reads a whole gigapixel pathology slide, answering diagnostic questions and writing slide-level descriptions.
Protein sequence embedding method that pools a language model's token outputs by PageRank over its own attention, adding no trained parameters.
Cis-regulatory element classifier that reads DNA sequence plus chromatin accessibility and loop tracks to label enhancers, silencers and insulators.
Harvard Medical School / Brigham and Women's Hospital / Stanford University
Released September 4, 2024
Weakly supervised histopathology foundation model pretrained on 60,530 whole-slide images for cancer detection, prognosis, and molecular prediction.
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.
UC Santa Cruz / Huazhong University of Science and Technology / Harvard University / Stanford University
Released August 6, 2024
Medical vision-language model trained on the MedTrinity-25M dataset, answering questions and generating text about radiology and histology images.
Semi-supervised cryo-ET segmentation framework that adapts DINOv2 vision transformers for 3D organelle annotation using sparse 2D slice labels.
Princeton University / Stanford University / SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory / Columbia University / CUNY Advanced Science Research Center / New York Structural Biology Center
Released June 2, 2024
Neural ab initio reconstruction for cryo-EM and cryo-ET that jointly infers particle poses and a continuous landscape of conformational states.
Multi-modal foundation model for sleep analysis, learning joint representations across brain, cardiac, and respiratory polysomnography signals.
Structure-conditioned protein language model aligned to experimental stability data, scoring variant stability and generating stabilized sequences.
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.
RNA foundation model trained on chemical-mapping data from millions of sequences, predicting reactivity, secondary structure, and degradation.
Instruction-tuned vision-language foundation model for chest X-ray interpretation, with 8 billion parameters spanning eight clinical task types.
Single-cell foundation model producing species-agnostic cell embeddings by representing genes through frozen ESM-2 protein language model embeddings.
Michigan State University / Stanford University / NanoString Technologies / Jilin University / MD Anderson Cancer Center
Released November 13, 2023
Pseudo-membrane generator for fluorescence microscopy that synthesizes missing membrane staining from nuclei to improve single-cell segmentation.
Microsoft Research / Microsoft Research AI for Science / University of Toronto / Stanford University
Released September 12, 2023
Discrete diffusion model for protein sequence and MSA generation, enabling controllable de novo design directly in sequence space without structure.
Vision-language foundation model for pathology, fine-tuned from CLIP on 208,414 image-text pairs for zero-shot classification and image retrieval.
Stanford University / Harvard Medical School / Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein
Released July 27, 2023
Multimodal medical vision-language model for few-shot visual question answering, learning new imaging tasks from in-context examples at inference.
Genomic foundation model built on the Hyena operator, processing DNA at single-nucleotide resolution with context windows up to 1 million tokens.
Enable Medicine / Stanford University / Columbia University / University of Pittsburgh / Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / CellSight Technologies
Released May 19, 2023
Spatial proteomics imputation from a 7-plex immunofluorescence panel, generating in silico CODEX expression for 33 more biomarkers per cell.
Stanford University
Released April 24, 2023
Zero-shot antibody affinity maturation using ESM pseudolikelihood scoring. Improves binding up to 160-fold with no antigen-specific training data.
Text-conditioned latent diffusion model that generates synthetic chest X-rays from free-form radiology prompts by adapting Stable Diffusion.
Self-supervised vision-language model for zero-shot detection of chest X-ray pathologies, trained on image-report pairs without explicit labels.
Baker Lab / Institute for Protein Design / University of Washington / Harvard University / UT Southwestern Medical Center / University of Cambridge / Stanford University / Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory / North-West University / University of the Free State / University of Graz / Medical University of Graz / University of Victoria / University of British Columbia / UC Berkeley / Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Released July 15, 2021
Protein structure and complex prediction from sequence, in a three-track network that reasons over alignments, distances, and 3D coordinates at once.