Research summary

Our goal is to develop AI models that can drive biomedical discoveries.  Our research brings together fundamental questions in AI and challenges in biomedicine: advances in AI create new opportunities for biomedical discovery, while biological questions inspire broadly applicable AI methods. We build multimodal and generative AI models with the goal to understand how cells and tissues work and predict how they respond to interventions. At the same time, this work motivates fundamental questions about how AI models represent knowledge, connect modalities, and generalize to new settings.  By combining methodological advances with a deeper understanding of model behavior and limitations, we aim to build more capable and reliable AI systems for scientific discovery.

We are a team led by Prof. Maria Brbić at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL). We are part of the School of Computer and Communication Sciences, School of Life Sciences, Institute of Bioengineering and EPFL AI Center.