Google.org funds ANU-led chemotherapy resistance research with $2.2 million
The Australian National University (ANU) has been selected as a recipient of the Google.org Impact Challenge: AI for Science initiative. The research team, led by Dr Eli Niktab, Principal AI Engineer at ANU's National Centre for Indigenous Genomics, will receive US$2.2 million to develop a Cytotoxic Resistance Atlas — an open molecular map of cancer cell lines that survive chemotherapy. The…
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- ANU receives US$2.2 million from Google.org for chemotherapy resistance research
- Team led by Dr Eli Niktab is building a Cytotoxic Resistance Atlas using a two-tiered AI engine
- Atlas, AI models, and software will be free to use for all researchers worldwide
Collaborators include The John Curtin School of Medical Research, the University of Kent, Canberra Hospital, PacBio, the Victorian Cancer Biobank, and Australia's National Computational Infrastructure. ANU is one of 17 organisations chosen globally from over 3,000 applicants across 30 countries. The models will be trained on Gadi, Australia's national supercomputer, and all outputs — including the atlas, AI models, and software — will be free for researchers worldwide.
AI for science: Google.org funding to support ANU-led chemotherapy resistance cancer research
anu.edu.au · 15 October 2026
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