AI x Cancer Bio Hackathon

Hey AI and cancer biology enthusiasts!

Welcome to the first AI Cancer Bio Hackathon organized by the CRUK Cambridge Centre.

Location: Newnham College, Cynthia Beerbower room

Dates: 16th-18th of January 2025

(Challenges are given on the 16th of January at the kick-off event)

Your team will solve challenges over 36 hours and be able to participate in workshops.

No machine learning skills required. You will have be in a team with at least one ML engineer.

Hacking Day 1 (Friday 17th Jan 2025)

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM: Check-in/Coffee/Tea

9:00 AM - 09:20 AM: Refresher: Hackathon rules and guidelines explanation, last minute team formation.

09:30 AM - 10:30 AM Workshop on Polaris platform

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM: Workshop by Helical on their open source platform

Hacking continues

1:30 PM Lunch

Continue hacking with teams O/N

(coffee and tea from 8 AM)

12:00 PM Submission deadline

12:30 PM -1:30 PM Lunch and Judge deliberations

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM Presentations

3:00 PM-3:30 PM Judge deliberation

3:30 PM Prize ceremony

3:45 Concluding remarks

Note, no accommodation provided.

About our workshops:

will provide access to their Polaris platform, a powerful new tool that allows the ML community working on drug discovery problems to easily share and access datasets.

provides a cutting-edge platform specialising in DNA and mRNA Bio Foundation Models to accelerate drug discovery. It offers tools for target identification, biomarker discovery, mRNA sequence design, patient stratification, and gene therapy design

About our sponsors:

is a technology company building full-stack infrastructure to service the explosive growth of the global AI industry, including large-scale GPU clusters, cloud platforms, and tools and services for developers. Headquartered in Amsterdam and listed on Nasdaq, the company has a global footprint with R&D hubs across Europe, North America and Israel. Nebius's core business is an AI-centric cloud platform built for intensive AI workloads. With proprietary cloud software architecture and hardware designed in-house (including servers, racks and data center design), Nebius gives AI builders the compute, storage, managed services and tools they need to build, tune and run their models. A Preferred cloud service provider in the NVIDIA Partner Network, Nebius offers high-end infrastructure optimized for AI training and inference. The company boasts a team of around 400 skilled engineers, delivering a true hyperscale cloud experience tailored for AI builders.

Nebius is proud to sponsor the AI x Cancer Biology hackathon in partnership with the University of Cambridge.As part of their sponsor, Nebius will provide free cloud computing resources including GPU access and VMs to all participants that wanted it, as well as GPU credits as prizes to the top 3 teams.We are excited to partner with the University of Cambridge on such a worthwhile event.

At Scan we believe in the power of technology to accelerate human creativity and innovation. We want to enable breakthrough discoveries in cancer research, by making AI tools and platforms affordable and accessible.

About our partner:

is a co-creation lab for AI/Generative AI ventures. We work with innovators across leading universities, nurturing AI/GenAI startups taking them from idea stage to making them investable.

Host or Publisher Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre