Academic

Sun Yat-sen University

Chinese research university

Location: Guangzhou, China
12 models(5 Language model, 4 Pathology, 3 Imaging, 2 Protein, 2 Single-cell, 2 Small molecule, 1 DNA & Gene)

Models (12)

LucaPhylo

Alibaba Cloud / Sun Yat-sen University / University of Sydney

Released May 26, 2026

5

A hyperbolic protein language model for alignment-free phylogenetic inference, producing distance matrices for tree placement without multiple sequence alignment.

Protein

AetherCell

Sun Yat-sen University

Released March 13, 2026

2

Generative virtual-cell engine that unifies clinical RNA-seq and perturbation-assay data to predict transcriptomic responses to unseen compounds and genetic perturbations across biological scales.

Single-cellSmall molecule

Mol-Reasoning

Pengcheng Laboratory / Sun Yat-sen University / Tsinghua University

Released March 13, 2026

1

A DeepSeek-7B-based multi-task large reasoning model that applies chain-of-thought reasoning and reinforcement learning across ~10 molecular science task families.

Small moleculeLanguage model

GPFM

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology / Sun Yat-sen University / Southern Medical University / Chinese University of Hong Kong

Released November 1, 2025

37126

A generalizable computational-pathology foundation model trained on ~190M histopathology patches via unified knowledge distillation from UNI, Phikon, and CONCH.

Pathology

LucaVirus

Sun Yat-sen University / University of Sydney

Released June 14, 2025

469

A multi-modal viral foundation model trained on 25.4B nucleotide and amino-acid tokens spanning nearly all known viruses, for virus discovery, function annotation, and antibody design.

DNA & GeneProtein

MINIM

Peking University / Macau University of Science and Technology / Sun Yat-sen University

Released February 1, 2025

127158

A self-improving text-to-image diffusion foundation model that generates synthetic medical images across multiple modalities and organs to augment downstream clinical AI tasks.

Imaging

MedRegA

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology / Sun Yat-sen University

Released October 24, 2024

261445

Region-aware bilingual (Chinese-English) medical multimodal LLM that handles image- and region-level vision-language tasks across eight imaging modalities.

PathologyLanguage model

CellFM

Sun Yat-sen University

Released June 6, 2024

62108

An 800M-parameter single-cell foundation model pre-trained on 100 million human cells via a RetNet architecture for cell annotation, perturbation prediction, and gene analysis.

Single-cell

EyeFound

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University / Sun Yat-sen University / National University of Singapore / EPFL

Released May 18, 2024

40

A multimodal generalist foundation model for ophthalmic imaging, self-supervised on 2.78M images across 11 modalities for diagnosis, prognosis, and visual question answering.

Imaging

PTUnifier

Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen / Sun Yat-sen University / Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data

Released February 17, 2023

5278

Prompt-based medical vision-language pretraining that unifies fusion-encoder and dual-encoder architectures, handling image-only, text-only, and image-text inputs in one model.

PathologyLanguage model

M3AE

Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data / Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen / Sun Yat-sen University

Released September 15, 2022

183132

Self-supervised medical vision-and-language pretraining via multi-modal masked autoencoders that reconstruct masked image patches and text tokens.

PathologyLanguage model

ARL (Align, Reason and Learn)

Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data / Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen / Sun Yat-sen University

Released September 15, 2022

10938

Knowledge-enhanced medical vision-and-language pre-training framework that aligns, reasons over, and learns from structured medical knowledge for radiology image-text tasks.

ImagingLanguage model