The Cancer AI Alliance, a pioneering partnership including Johns Hopkins Engineering and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, along with leading cancer centers and tech companies, has been recognized in TIME magazine’s TIME100 AI 2025 for its groundbreaking work in artificial intelligence and cancer research.
Alexis Battle, professor of biomedical engineering and director of JHU’s Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare, co-leads Johns Hopkins’ participation in the alliance alongside oncologist Vasan Yegnasubramanian from JHU’s School of Medicine. Battle is also director of research for strategy and partnerships for the university’s Data Science and AI Institute.
At Johns Hopkins, Battle and other researchers from the Whiting School of Engineering, the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, and groups across the university are developing projects centered on using AI to deliver precision cancer care, creating enhanced approaches to detecting, interrupting, and treating cancers according to each patient’s history and needs. Through the alliance, they are bringing together interdisciplinary teams of scientists and vast data resources to harness the power of AI to enable these new strategies.
Battle, an expert in AI and computational genomics, notes that the alliance has the potential to rapidly accelerate innovation in cancer care by leveraging data from multiple cancer centers and providing members with the computing infrastructure needed to learn from the large volumes of cancer data generated at these sites during routine care. Privacy and security are maintained through a federated learning framework that allows each.
“This alliance has the potential to rapidly accelerate innovation in cancer care using AI. Leveraging data and ideas across multiple centers will foster intellectual collaboration and allow us to train more powerful models,” Battle said.