Overview
- ARC at Sheba Medical Center and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai announced a three-year collaboration with NVIDIA to develop a Genomic Foundation Model aimed at decoding the ~98% of human DNA that is poorly understood.
- Sheba and Mount Sinai will contribute extensive clinical and genomic datasets along with AI research expertise, while NVIDIA supplies the GPU infrastructure, software and scientific support needed to train the large-scale model.
- The initiative is anchored at Mount Sinai within the Million Health Discoveries Program, with reporting that 11,000 genomes will feed early work as joint research teams build the shared platform.
- Coverage describes an investment in the tens of millions of dollars and dedicated teams of five to seven full-time experts from each partner over the project’s three-year span.
- According to detailed reporting, Sheba and Mount Sinai will retain intellectual property with initial exclusive access to the model, which is intended for eventual public release, and success is targeted as discovering new disease pathways within two years.