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University of Science and Technology of China

A research university in Hefei governed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, working at the frontier of quantum information, AI, and life sciences.

Location: Hefei, China
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11 models(3 Imaging, 2 RNA, 2 Pathology, 2 Spatial omics, 2 Protein, 2 Small molecule, 1 Biosignals, 1 Single-cell, 1 DNA & Gene, 1 Language model)

Models (11)

WattmaMod

Shandong University / Qingdao University of Science and Technology / University of Science and Technology of China / King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Released July 2, 2026

RNA modification profiling from nanopore direct RNA-seq signal; self-supervised pretraining resolves 11 modification types and extends to new ones.

RNABiosignals

PulmoFoundation

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology / Southern Medical University / Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Molecular Tumor Pathology / Fourth Military Medical University / University of Science and Technology of China / Zhejiang University / HaploX Biotechnology / Hebei Medical University / 900th Hospital of the PLA Joint Logistic Support Force / Shandong Provincial Qianfoshan Hospital

Released May 25, 2026

Lung pathology foundation model adapted from Virchow2 on whole-slide images, validated across 32 tasks spanning the lung diagnostic workflow.

Pathology

H2O

Tencent AI for Life Science Lab / Fudan University / University of Science and Technology of China

Released April 24, 2026

Pathology foundation model that infers spatial transcriptomics and proteomics directly from routine H&E whole-slide images, with no spatial assay.

PathologySpatial omics

STPAINTER

University of Science and Technology of China / Peking University / Princeton University

Released February 13, 2026

10

Pan-cancer pretrained diffusion model imputing genome-wide expression from sparse spatial transcriptomics panels, zero-shot and reference-free.

Spatial omicsSingle-cell

GENERator-v2

Beijing Zhongguancun Academy / Mila / Université de Montréal / University of Science and Technology of China / HEC Montréal

Released January 29, 2026

1460

Family of autoregressive genomic foundation models that reconcile k-mer tokenization with single-nucleotide resolution at contexts up to 98k bp.

DNA & Gene

EnzyPGM

University of Science and Technology of China / Nanjing University

Released January 27, 2026

2

Enzyme design model that jointly generates enzyme sequences and substrate-binding pockets, conditioned on functional priors and substrate structure.

ProteinSmall molecule

MolChord

Beijing Zhongguancun Academy / University of Science and Technology of China

Released October 31, 2025

2

Structure-based drug design model that generates ligands for a protein pocket, pairing a diffusion structure encoder with preference optimization.

Small moleculeProtein

structRFM

University of Science and Technology of China

Released August 7, 2025

63235

RNA foundation model pretrained jointly on sequences and secondary structures for structure prediction, homology and splice site classification.

RNA

T3D

Imperial College London / University of Oxford / University of Science and Technology of China / Peking University / Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Released December 3, 2023

14

Vision-language pretraining for 3D CT volumes, aligning scans with their radiology reports for zero-shot classification, retrieval, and segmentation.

ImagingLanguage model

UniBrain

Shanghai Jiao Tong University / University of Science and Technology of China / Shanghai AI Laboratory / Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital

Released September 13, 2023

239

Vision-language pre-training framework for universal brain MRI diagnosis, learning from imaging-report pairs to cover more than ten brain diseases.

Imaging

MedLSAM

Shanghai AI Laboratory / Shanghai Jiao Tong University / University of Science and Technology of China / Sichuan University

Released June 26, 2023

28522

3D CT localization foundation model that pairs MedLAM with SAM to segment any anatomical structure at a fixed, dataset-independent annotation cost.

Imaging