A comprehensive research university in Beijing, pairing strength in engineering and computer science with life science and biomedical AI research.
A joint institute of Tsinghua University and the Shenzhen government, running applied R&D centres in biotech, materials, electronics, and energy.
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A Guangdong provincial institute managed by Tsinghua University, running applied R&D centres that carry engineering research into regional industry.
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Volumetric cell segmentation for 3D fluorescence microscopy, pretrained on 5.1 TB of unlabeled volumes and generalizing across species and imaging.
Genomic foundation model that pairs 650 kb of gene-centered DNA with transcription factor activity to predict expression in unseen cell types.
Tsinghua University / Fuzhou University / Peking University Third Hospital / Peng Cheng Laboratory / Research Institute of Tsinghua, Pearl River Delta / Jinfeng Laboratory / Jinan Inspur Data Technology
Released August 18, 2026
Histopathology foundation model for uterine malignancies that orders whole-slide morphology into continuous, progression-associated tumor states.
Machine learning force field for all-atom protein dynamics, trained on 40 million DFT dipeptide conformations covering backbone and side-chain space.
De novo siRNA design conditioned on target mRNA context, generating 21-nt duplexes by masked discrete diffusion under efficacy guidance.
EEG foundation model pretrained to predict structured latent states rather than masked waveforms, reaching 52.94% frozen macro balanced accuracy.
Shanghai AI Laboratory / Fudan University / University of Sydney / Shanghai Jiao Tong University / University of Southern California / Shanghai Innovation Institute / University of Electronic Science and Technology of China / Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences / Nanjing Normal University / Westlake University / Shenzhen Loop Area Institute / Chinese University of Hong Kong / Tsinghua University
Released July 30, 2026
Genomic foundation model on a Mamba, attention, and mixture-of-experts backbone, with 1M-token context for variant scoring and regulatory DNA design.
Calcium imaging foundation model for neural population forecasting and behavior decoding, with frozen-backbone transfer across three species.
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.
Shanghai AI Laboratory / Tsinghua University / Fudan University / City University of Hong Kong / Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
Released May 30, 2026
Protein-text foundation model placing amino acid sequences and natural language in one token space for protein understanding and de novo design.
Tri-modal foundation model unifying histology images, spatial transcriptomics, and language for zero-shot pathology and spatial biology reasoning.
Physics-informed generative foundation model for quantitative diffusion MRI that maps brain microstructure and adapts zero-shot to each participant.
Medical agent system for continuous care, combining a reasoning model with clinical tools for patient memory, evidence retrieval, and medical imaging.
Protein structure prediction and binder design in a single generative step, replacing AlphaFold3's iterative diffusion sampling with one forward pass.
Co-generative protein language model decoding sequence and structure tokens together from GO functional annotations for de novo protein design.
All-atom generative foundation model that designs small molecules, peptides, and nanobodies against a target binding site from a single checkpoint.
Pengcheng Laboratory / Sun Yat-sen University / Tsinghua University
Released March 13, 2026
Molecular reasoning model built on DeepSeek-7B, using chain-of-thought and reinforcement learning for property prediction, generation, and reactions.
Hierarchical language model for atlas-level cell-type annotation of scATAC-seq data that annotates new query datasets without retraining.
Tsinghua University / Fuzhou University / Fourth Military Medical University / University of Oxford / Research Institute of Tsinghua, Pearl River Delta / Peng Cheng Laboratory / Ankang Central Hospital / Jinan Inspur Data Technology
Released March 3, 2026
Renal pathology foundation model whose learning unit is a whole detected glomerulus, pretrained on over a million of them across four biopsy stains.
Tsinghua University / Fuzhou University / Fourth Military Medical University / University of Oxford / Research Institute of Tsinghua, Pearl River Delta / Peng Cheng Laboratory / Ankang Central Hospital / Jinan Inspur Data Technology
Released March 3, 2026
Renal pathology foundation model self-supervised on a million kidney biopsy tiles spanning glomeruli, interstitium, and surrounding structures.
Protein language model that encodes sequences as discrete words from a learned vocabulary for zero-shot function inference and protein design.
Latent diffusion model that designs D-peptide binders against native L-protein targets, generalizing across chirality via axial vector features.
Fudan University / Shanghai AI Laboratory / Tsinghua University / Westlake University / Tongji University / Shanghai Innovation Institute / University of British Columbia / Zhejiang University / Stony Brook University
Released December 13, 2025
De novo peptide sequencing transformer that reads modified and unmodified peptides directly from tandem mass spectra without a reference database.
Equivariant diffusion model that converts peptide binders into drug-like small molecules, generating peptidomimetics inside the target protein pocket.
Multimodal LLM that tokenizes single cells into discrete VQ-VAE codebook tokens, letting one model reason jointly over transcriptomes and text.
Retrieval-augmented latent diffusion model for protein binder design, retrieving interfaces in a shared latent space across peptides and antibodies.
Beijing Zhongguancun Academy / Zhongguancun Institute of Artificial Intelligence / Tsinghua University / Peking University / Georgia Institute of Technology
Released September 23, 2025
Hierarchical transformer for virus discovery in metagenomes, classifying viral genomes across taxonomic ranks and flagging candidate novel lineages.
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications / Capital Medical University / Tsinghua University / Peking Union Medical College Hospital / Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
Released September 8, 2025
Antibiotic resistance gene detection in metagenomes, pairing frozen ESM-1v embeddings with light classifier heads for drug class and mechanism.
Simplex diffusion model for discrete sequence generation, with released checkpoints for DNA enhancer design and de novo protein sequence design.
Tsinghua University / University of Electronic Science and Technology of China / Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence
Released August 21, 2025
Protein-ligand binding model that embeds ligands, pockets, and sequences in hyperbolic space, unifying virtual screening and affinity ranking.
National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing / Tsinghua University
Released July 26, 2025
Drug perturbation model predicting post-treatment gene expression from a cell's baseline profile and compound structure, zero-shot on unseen drugs.
Spatial transcriptomics foundation model pairing gene-scale cell embeddings with an SE(2) Transformer over cell coordinates, pretrained on 88M cells.
Shanghai AI Laboratory / Tsinghua University / Fudan University / Tianjin University / Georgia Institute of Technology / Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications / University of Chinese Academy of Sciences / City University of Hong Kong
Released July 11, 2025
Protein foundation model built on Bayesian Flow Networks, prompted with MSA profiles for structure- and function-preserving sequence design.
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.
Spatial transcriptomics resolution enhancement from expression alone, using a tri-oriented Mamba encoder to predict expression between capture spots.
Tsinghua University / Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence / University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Released June 6, 2025
Structure-based virtual screening model that scores ligands against apo and predicted pockets, lifting blind-apo EF1% on DUD-E from 11.75 to 37.19.
mRNA optimization model that raises codon adaptation, tRNA adaptation, and folding stability at once while preserving the encoded protein sequence.
ByteDance Seed / University of Chinese Academy of Sciences / Chinese Academy of Sciences / Tsinghua University / Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Released May 27, 2025
Cyclic peptide design conditioned on target protein structure, generating all four cyclization types via all-atom, all-bond harmonic SDE modeling.
Molecular dynamics emulator generating time-coarsened trajectories for small molecules, peptides, and proteins from one shared atomic representation.
Tsinghua University / Shanghai AI Laboratory / University of Cambridge / University College London
Released May 18, 2025
Brain foundation model unifying EEG and MEG in a single encoder via a shared discrete tokenizer that transfers across sensor layouts and montages.
Tsinghua University / Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica / Sichuan University
Released May 12, 2025
Structure-based drug design that schedules noise separately for 3D coordinates and 2D topology, reaching a 95.9% PoseBusters valid rate on CrossDock.
Spatial transcriptomics foundation model pretrained to generate a cell's expression profile from its neighbors, yielding zero-shot niche embeddings.
Hypergraph foundation model for brain disease diagnosis from resting-state fMRI, self-supervised on high-order connectivity among brain regions.
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.
De novo binder design across small molecules, peptides, and antibodies from one geometric latent diffusion model over graphs of molecular blocks.
Shanghai Jiao Tong University / Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine / Wenzhou Medical University / Shanghai Chest Hospital / Peking University / Tsinghua University
Released March 12, 2025
Protein inverse folding ensemble that fuses five pretrained sequence designers through a self-attention encoder, reaching 63.1% recovery on CATH4.2.
All-atom generative foundation model for biomolecular structure, unifying protein-ligand docking, structure-based drug design, and peptide design.
Microsoft Research AI for Science / Peking University / Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) / Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications / Huazhong University of Science and Technology / Tsinghua University / Microsoft Research Asia
Released March 9, 2025
Generative foundation model that co-generates sequence and 3D coordinates for proteins, small molecules, and crystals under functional objectives.
Tsinghua University / University of Chinese Academy of Sciences / Chinese Academy of Sciences / Peking University / University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign / Griffith University / StoneWise
Released March 6, 2025
Full-atom flow matching model that generates a ligand and the induced-fit holo pocket together, starting from an apo binding site.
Tsinghua University / Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) / Gluetacs Therapeutics / Xuzhou Medical University / Central South University / China University of Mining and Technology / Jiangnan University / Sichuan University
Released March 2, 2025
PROTAC degradation prediction from molecular graphs of the target, linker, and E3 ligase, combining cross-attention with contrastive learning.
Shanghai AI Laboratory / Fourth Military Medical University / Tsinghua University / University of Science and Technology of China / Hong Kong University of Science and Technology / Peking University / Shanghai Jiao Tong University / SenseTime
Released March 2, 2025
Histopathology foundation model pretrained on 300K whole-slide images across 20 tissue types and validated on 112 clinical-grade downstream tasks.
Prophage island detection in bacterial genomes and metagenome-assembled genomes, pairing a fine-tuned ESM-2 gene classifier with density clustering.
Latent diffusion model for single-cell multi-omics generation and modality translation, with gradient-based inference of gene regulatory networks.
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.
Multimodal ECG language model pairing a specialized signal encoder with a biomedical LLM for cardiovascular disease detection and question answering.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign / Tsinghua University / University of Chinese Academy of Sciences / Peking University / University of Washington / Georgia Institute of Technology / Helixon Research
Released January 25, 2025
Molecular docking framework that poses several ligands sharing one protein pocket at once, using their consistency to sharpen each prediction.
Protein function annotation model that parses sequences into residue clusters via community detection on ESM-2 attention, then maps them to GO terms.
Tsinghua University / Peking University / Renmin University of China / Helixon Research / Fujian Medical University / National Center for Nanoscience and Technology
Released January 21, 2025
Peptide binder design by mimicking the binding interface of a known receptor or antibody, generating all-atom peptides through latent diffusion.
Tsinghua University / University of Science and Technology of China / Helixon Research
Released January 20, 2025
Antibody CDR sequence-structure co-design by flow matching, starting from an informative structural prior rather than from Gaussian noise.
Tsinghua University / Chinese PLA General Hospital / Beijing Tiantan Hospital
Released January 10, 2025
Multimodal vision-text foundation model for brain CT and MRI, pretrained on roughly 10 million image-report pairs to act as a clinical copilot.
Single-cell epigenomic foundation model that reads scATAC-seq as cell sentences of accessible cCREs, pretrained on about 5 million human cells.
Tsinghua University / University of Washington / MIT / University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign / ByteDance / Helixon Research
Released November 26, 2024
Target-conditioned peptide binder design model that samples hot-spot residues from an energy-based density, then extends fragments autoregressively.
Tsinghua University / Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica / Peking University
Released November 20, 2024
Structure-based molecule optimization that steers a Bayesian flow network with property gradients over 3D coordinates and atom types at once.
Pocket-conditioned 3D ligand generator trained on its own predicted conformations, closing the train-inference gap that degrades diffusion sampling.
Protein language model that explains single-site mutation effects in natural language and proposes new mutants from free-text instructions.
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences / Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences / University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign / Tsinghua University / Peking University
Released October 28, 2024
Reprograms a frozen single-target diffusion model for dual-target drug design by composing SE(3)-equivariant messages across two aligned pockets.
Microsoft Research AI for Science / University of Washington / Tsinghua University / Beijing Normal University
Released October 27, 2024
Single-cell model that ranks the genes driving a cell state transition, using a gene graph-enhanced manifold pretrained on 20 million cells.
Tsinghua University / Peking University / University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign / Capital Medical University / Fujian Medical University
Released October 21, 2024
Molecular docking and design foundation model that unifies structure-based drug design and peptide design at the atom level in one checkpoint.
Harvard Medical School / VA Boston Healthcare System / Brigham and Women's Hospital / Tsinghua University
Released October 14, 2024
Joint embedding space for common SNPs and free-text clinical concepts, aligned by contrastive learning over GWAS, biobank and knowledge-graph pairs.
Tsinghua University / National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing / University of California, San Diego
Released October 5, 2024
Diffusion model for de novo protein backbone design that learns a 32-dimensional latent code for global fold geometry and generates conditioned on it.
Cis-regulatory element classifier that reads DNA sequence plus chromatin accessibility and loop tracks to label enhancers, silencers and insulators.
End-to-end framework predicting protein structure and mutational fitness from a single sequence, with five-fold faster inference than ESMFold.
Peking University First Hospital / Beihang University / OxTium Technology / Research Institute of Tsinghua University in Shenzhen / Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital / Beijing Hospital / University of Science and Technology Beijing
Released July 2, 2024
Cell-free RNA language model for multi-cancer detection, classifying plasma samples straight from raw sequencing reads without gene annotation.
BioMap / Tsinghua University / Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
Released June 9, 2024
Scaling-law study of protein language models identifying compute-optimal training for causal and masked objectives on 939 million protein sequences.
Helixon Research / Tsinghua University / University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Released June 2, 2024
Full-atom peptide binder design against a target pocket, generating backbone frames, side-chain torsions and residue types in one joint flow.
Tsinghua University / University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign / Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica
Released April 18, 2024
Structure-based drug design that generates 3D ligands for a protein pocket entirely in the continuous parameter space of a Bayesian flow network.
RNA language model that builds base-pairing constraints into self-attention, pretrained on 20.4 million sequences for structure and function tasks.
Tsinghua University / University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign / Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica
Released March 17, 2024
3D molecule generation that models atom coordinates and element types as distribution parameters updated by Bayesian inference, not by denoising.
Tsinghua University / Renmin University of China / University of Pisa
Released February 20, 2024
All-atom 3D molecular foundation model pretrained across small molecules, proteins, and complexes with an E(3)-equivariant denoising objective.
Generative language model for single-cell transcriptomics with 368M parameters, unifying cell type annotation, batch integration, and cell generation.
Tsinghua University / Peng Cheng Laboratory / Peking University / University of Science and Technology of China / University of Chinese Academy of Sciences / ByteDance
Released January 15, 2024
Structure-based drug design diffusion model that re-extracts the essential binding subcomplex from a pocket at every step of 3D ligand generation.
Unified 100-billion-parameter protein language model combining autoencoding and autoregressive objectives for protein understanding and generation.
Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, CAS / Pengcheng Laboratory / University of Chinese Academy of Sciences / Tsinghua University / Macau University of Science and Technology / Wenzhou Medical University / Nanchang University / Chinese Medicine Guangdong Laboratory / Guangzhou National Laboratory / Capital Medical University / Shenzhen University / Macao Polytechnic University
Released January 4, 2024
Vision-language model for annotation-free pathology localization, marking the finding a text prompt names in X-ray, histology and fundus images.
Diffusion model for synthesizing single-cell RNA-seq data, with guided generation of specific cell types, rare cells, and developmental trajectories.
Transformer model predicting context-specific epigenomic signals across cell types using DNA sequence and transcription factor activity profiles.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign / Peking University / Tsinghua University
Released March 6, 2023
Structure-based drug design by SE(3)-equivariant diffusion over 3D atom coordinates and types, with the same frozen network scoring binding affinity.
Molecular graph transformer pretrained on 11 million unlabelled compounds, used as a frozen fingerprint source or fine-tuned for property prediction.