A research university in Hefei governed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, working at the frontier of quantum information, AI, and life sciences.
Northwestern Polytechnical University / University of Science and Technology of China / Shaanxi Normal University
Released August 15, 2026
Olfactory receptor-odorant interaction prediction from sequence and SMILES, pairing protein and chemical language models through cross-attention.
Qingdao University of Science and Technology / King Abdullah University of Science and Technology / University of Science and Technology of China
Released August 2, 2026
Physics-guided distillation that transfers 3D molecular dynamics knowledge into SMILES language models, improving MoleculeNet property prediction.
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.
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.
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.
University of Science and Technology of China / Peking University / Princeton University
Released February 13, 2026
Pan-cancer pretrained diffusion model imputing genome-wide expression from sparse spatial transcriptomics panels, zero-shot and reference-free.
Beijing Zhongguancun Academy / Mila / Université de Montréal / University of Science and Technology of China / HEC Montréal
Released January 29, 2026
Family of autoregressive genomic foundation models that reconcile k-mer tokenization with single-nucleotide resolution at contexts up to 98k bp.
Enzyme design model that jointly generates enzyme sequences and substrate-binding pockets, conditioned on functional priors and substrate structure.
Beijing Zhongguancun Academy / University of Science and Technology of China
Released October 31, 2025
Structure-based drug design model that generates ligands for a protein pocket, pairing a diffusion structure encoder with preference optimization.
Sun Yat-sen University / University of Science and Technology of China
Released September 11, 2025
Discrete graph diffusion model for multi-property molecular generation, composing per-property score guidance over arbitrary condition subsets.
RNA foundation model pretrained jointly on sequences and secondary structures for structure prediction, homology and splice site classification.
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology / University of Science and Technology of China / Chinese University of Hong Kong / Tencent
Released June 26, 2025
Text-prompted pathology image segmentation across 160 tissue, cell, and nuclei categories, replacing point and box inputs with natural language.
Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences / Anhui University / Anhui Medical University / University of Science and Technology of China / Hong Kong Baptist University
Released June 19, 2025
Peptide-HLA immunogenicity prediction with a BiLSTM ensemble, inside a pipeline that finds microbial epitopes mimicking tumor neoantigens.
Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica / ShanghaiTech University / Lingang Laboratory / University of Chinese Academy of Sciences / Tongji University / University of Science and Technology of China / Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine / Zunyi Medical University / Guizhou Medical University
Released June 4, 2025
Relative protein-ligand binding affinity prediction from docked complexes, matching Schrodinger FEP+ ranking accuracy zero-shot on the FEP benchmark.
University of Science and Technology of China / Harbin Institute of Technology / National University of Singapore
Released March 12, 2025
Single-cell foundation model that fuses scRNA-seq profiles with text, pairing a cell encoder with an LLM for cell annotation and clustering.
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.
National University of Singapore / University of Science and Technology of China / Chinese University of Hong Kong / Hokkaido University
Released February 18, 2025
3D molecule generation that writes a valid 1D SELFIES string with a pretrained language model, then predicts its conformer with a diffusion module.
Alibaba Cloud / Beijing Zhongguancun Academy / Zhongguancun Institute of Artificial Intelligence / University of Science and Technology of China / Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen / Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) / Hong Kong University of Science and Technology / Mila / Université de Montréal / HEC Montréal / Carnegie Mellon University
Released February 11, 2025
Long-context generative genomic foundation model with a 98k-nucleotide window, trained on 386 billion bases of eukaryotic DNA for sequence design.
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.
Zhejiang University / Alibaba Cloud / University of Science and Technology of China / Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
Released December 28, 2024
Protein-text foundation model aligning sequences with function descriptions through segment-wise objectives for static and dynamic functional sites.
Shanghai AI Laboratory / University of Science and Technology of China / University of Sydney / University of Toronto / Chinese University of Hong Kong / Shanghai Jiao Tong University / Fudan University / Shanghai Innovation Institute
Released December 26, 2024
Multi-omics instruction-tuned LLM that reads DNA, RNA, protein, and multi-molecule sequences and answers natural-language questions about them.
Xiamen University / University of Science and Technology of China / The University of Hong Kong / IMT Mines Alès / University of Montpellier / CHU de Nîmes
Released December 13, 2024
Self-supervised histopathology encoder that models tissue entities as a graph and pretrains by latent graph diffusion over masked subgraphs.
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen / West China Hospital of Sichuan University / University College Dublin / Shenzhen University / Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications / North Sichuan Medical College / Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data / Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen) / Wuhan University / King Abdullah University of Science and Technology / Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications / University of Science and Technology of China / Chinese Academy of Sciences
Released November 25, 2024
Ultrasound foundation model pretrained by federated learning across 16 institutions, transferring to disease diagnosis and lesion segmentation.
Zhejiang University / Alibaba Cloud / University of Science and Technology of China / Liangzhu Laboratory / Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine
Released November 4, 2024
Protein inverse folding as a generative Markov bridge, refining a structure-derived sequence prior with a frozen protein language model.
Dual-language transformer pretrained on paired protein and mRNA coding sequences, scoring protein and mRNA properties and generating optimized CDS.
University of Science and Technology of China / Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences / iFLYTEK / First Affiliated Hospital of USTC (Anhui Provincial Hospital)
Released October 18, 2024
3D CT vision-language model that drafts radiology reports, answers questions about volumes, and screens for disease from a masked-autoencoder encoder.
Protein-ligand docking framework that picks the binding pocket by contrastive alignment, then refines the pose with bi-level iterative refinement.
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.
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
Vision-language pretraining for 3D CT volumes, aligning scans with their radiology reports for zero-shot classification, retrieval, and segmentation.
Shanghai Jiao Tong University / University of Science and Technology of China / Shanghai AI Laboratory / Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital
Released September 13, 2023
Vision-language pre-training framework for universal brain MRI diagnosis, learning from imaging-report pairs to cover more than ten brain diseases.
Shanghai Jiao Tong University / Shanghai AI Laboratory / East China University of Science and Technology / ShanghaiTech University / Guangzhou National Laboratory / University of Science and Technology of China / Hangzhou Institute of Medicine, CAS / SenseTime / Shanghai Academy of Experimental Medicine / Hzymes Biotechnology
Released July 24, 2023
Protein language model ranking stabilizing mutations with no assay data, trained jointly to predict the growth temperature of each sequence's host.
Shanghai AI Laboratory / Shanghai Jiao Tong University / University of Science and Technology of China / Sichuan University
Released June 26, 2023
3D CT localization foundation model that pairs MedLAM with SAM to segment any anatomical structure at a fixed, dataset-independent annotation cost.
Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica / Zhejiang University / University of Chinese Academy of Sciences / ShanghaiTech University / Lingang Laboratory / University of Science and Technology of China / Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine
Released June 21, 2023
Equivariant heterogeneous graph network that rescores docked protein-ligand poses for virtual screening and ranks structural analogs by activity.
Microsoft Research Asia / Nanjing University / University of Science and Technology of China
Released September 22, 2022
Protein language model reading each residue alongside an unsupervised local-fragment token, so one encoder serves residue- and chain-level tasks.