International, cross-sector collaboration commits nearly $2 billion to build foundational data for AI models to predict and treat disease
Organisation announcement (funding and data commitment, not a model or result): Biohub, the U.S. DOE Office of Science and NIH expand the Virtual Biology Initiative (announced April 2026), with a stated $1.8 billion in funding, data, computation and measurement technology for open, AI-ready biological data. Stated components: DOE more than $500M over five years; NIH to coordinate datasets and repositories from more than $500M in prior federal investment (Bio Genesis Mission); Google DeepMind, Isomorphic Labs and Meta collectively $300M; Biohub's founding $500M commitment. No data-release timeline is given.
- Authors / organisation
- Biohub (with U.S. DOE Office of Science and NIH)
- Venue
- Biohub news (organisation announcement)
- Date
- 2026-10-07
- Type
- news
- Year
- 2026
- Source
- https://biohub.org/news/virtual-biology-initiative-expansion/
- Verification
- Biohub news page fetched 2026-10-20 (title, dateline 2026-10-07, amounts, partners); corroborated by NIH news release and DOE Office of Science article of the same date (via web search 2026-10-20); claims are the organisations' own
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