Mount Sinai team wins million dollar prize for the development of Biomni-AD

A team led by Dr. Kuan-lin Huang, PhD, has been named a winner of the $1 million Alzheimer's Insights AI Prize, the Alzheimer's Disease Data Initiative (AD Data Initiative) announced on March 20. Dr. Huang is an Associate Professor of Genetics and Genomic Sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

The award honors the development of Biomni-AD, an advanced AI-powered "co-scientist" designed to dramatically reduce the time required to generate scientific insights from complex biomedical data.

The Mount Sinai team collaborated with partners at Stanford University on the winning project. Originally conceived as a single $1 million award, the competition expanded to recognize two winning teams, doubling the total prize amount to $2 million-reflecting both the exceptional quality of submissions and the urgency of advancing new approaches to Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.

Receiving this prize validates that AI can contribute to Alzheimer's research right now, not someday. It gives us the resources and visibility to deploy Biomni-AD broadly so researchers around the world can move from data to insight in minutes rather than months. That is what we have been working toward."