AI Learns Nature’s Code: Allen Institute, UW and Fred Hutch Launch $95M Open Science Initiative

Three of Seattle’s top scientific institutions, Allen Institute, University of Washington, and Fred Hutch Cancer Center, are launching AI BioDesign, a nearly $95M research initiative to generate data and train AI models to design new biomolecules, proteins, and genes that don’t exist in nature and accelerate the development of new treatments for disease. Led by UW biochemist and Nobel laureate David Baker, the initiative will share its results openly to advance new medicines and materials.