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Sun Yat-sen University

A comprehensive research university in Guangzhou, China, working across the humanities, natural sciences, engineering, and medicine.

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

Models (13)

LucaPhylo

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

Released May 26, 2026

13

Hyperbolic protein language model for alignment-free phylogenetic inference, turning ESM2-650M embeddings into distance matrices for tree placement.

Protein

AetherCell

Sun Yat-sen University

Released March 13, 2026

220

Generative virtual-cell model predicting whole-transcriptome responses to unseen compounds and genetic perturbations, from cell lines to organoids.

Single-cellSmall molecule

Mol-Reasoning

Pengcheng Laboratory / Sun Yat-sen University / Tsinghua University

Released March 13, 2026

1

Molecular reasoning model built on DeepSeek-7B, using chain-of-thought and reinforcement learning for property prediction, generation, and reactions.

Small moleculeLanguage model

SynPROTAC

Sun Yat-sen University

Released December 12, 2025

Designs synthesizable PROTAC degraders from reaction templates and purchasable building blocks, with reinforcement learning tuning the generator.

Small molecule

GPFM

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

Released November 1, 2025

54129

Histopathology foundation model extracting general-purpose features from H&E patches by distilling the UNI, Phikon, and CONCH pathology encoders.

Pathology

LucaVirus

Sun Yat-sen University / University of Sydney

Released June 14, 2025

526774

Multimodal viral foundation model over nucleotide and protein sequence, built 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

138158

Text-to-image diffusion model that generates synthetic medical images across imaging modalities and organs to augment scarce clinical training data.

Imaging

MedRegA

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

Released October 24, 2024

291346

Region-aware bilingual 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

78109

Single-cell foundation model with 800M parameters trained on ~100 million human cells, for 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

43

Ophthalmic imaging foundation model pretrained 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

5378

Medical vision-language pretraining unifying fusion-encoder and dual-encoder designs, handling image-only, text-only, and paired 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

192134

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

11338

Medical vision-language pretraining framework that injects structured medical knowledge into radiology image-text learning for VQA and retrieval.

ImagingLanguage model