The Aithyra Institute is a research institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences at the Vienna BioCenter (Austria), with a focus on the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and biomedicine.
[1] Funded by the Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation with 150 million euros for 12 years, the institute is designed to foster collaboration between experts in AI and life sciences.
[2][3][4] Michael Bronstein, AI researcher, entrepreneur, and DeepMind Professor at the University of Oxford, serves as the founding scientific director.
The institute emphasizes open-access principles, making its research data freely available to scientists worldwide.
The name "Aithrya" was generated using AI, reflecting the institute's innovative spirit and a fusion of Greek mythology with modern science.