Free research proposals

Research Proposals

Browse journal-publication-quality research proposals across AI for science — protein structure, drug discovery, medical imaging, genomics, and more. Enter your email to receive a secure PDF download link.

35 proposals · 8 research areas

Protein Structure, Binding & DesignRC-PSBD-10

KineticsFormer: SE(3)-Equivariant Geometric Deep Learning for Protein–Ligand Binding Kinetics Prediction

Multi-task prediction of kon, koff, and residence time via transfer learning from binding affinity.

4 downloads
Protein Structure, Binding & DesignRC-PSBD-11

MechDesign: Mechanistically Interpretable Protein Design via Sparse Feature Steering

Bridging sparse autoencoder interpretability and controllable generation in protein language models.

2 downloads
Protein Structure, Binding & DesignRC-PSBD-13

MolDynGNN: Molecular Dynamics-Informed Dynamic Graph Neural Networks for Binding Affinity Prediction

Integrating conformational ensembles into spatio-temporal graph learning for accurate protein–ligand scoring.

1 download
Protein Structure, Binding & DesignRC-PSBD-15

Protein–Ligand Binding Affinity Prediction Using Deep Learning

A comprehensive review, gap analysis, and proposed method for affinity prediction.

3 downloads
Protein Structure, Binding & DesignRC-PSBD-17

FeatureSteer-PLM: Sparse Autoencoder-Guided Interpretable Feature Steering for Protein Language Models

Interpretable feature steering for protein language model mutation effect prediction.

2 downloads
Drug Discovery & PharmacologyRC-DDP-01

Molecular Mechanisms of Antimicrobial Resistance

From genetic evolution and horizontal gene transfer to clinical manifestations and novel interventions.

2 downloads
Drug Discovery & PharmacologyRC-DDP-02

Diffusion Models for Antimicrobial Peptide Design

De novo generation of diverse, potent, and pathogen-targeted AMPs against drug-resistant and fungal threats.

2 downloads
Drug Discovery & PharmacologyRC-DDP-03

CellMorph-FM: Multi-Scale Self-Supervised Foundation Models for Cell Painting

Morphological profiling in drug discovery with multi-scale self-supervised foundation models.

0 downloads
Drug Discovery & PharmacologyRC-DDP-04

Explainable Graph Neural Networks with Pathway-Guided Attention for Drug Response Prediction

Integrating molecular graphs, multi-omics profiles, and biological knowledge for interpretable cancer therapy selection.

1 download
Drug Discovery & PharmacologyRC-DDP-05

PharmacoMicro Foundation: Multimodal Deep Learning for Microbiome–Host–Drug Interactions

Integrating metagenomic profiles, host pharmacogenomics, and molecular structures for personalised pharmacotherapy.

1 download
Drug Discovery & PharmacologyRC-DDP-07

PharmaRAG: Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Drug–Target Interaction Prediction

Dynamic knowledge retrieval for grounded binding affinity estimation.

0 downloads
Medical Imaging & RadiologyRC-MIR-03

MULTIVERSE: Multiscale Uncertainty-aware Transformer for Multimodal Alzheimer’s Disease Prediction

Cross-modal fusion of neuroimaging, genomics, and clinical data with calibrated uncertainty and missing-modality robustness.

3 downloads
Medical Imaging & RadiologyRC-MIR-04

CALCXR: Confidence-Calibrated Vision-Language Models for Radiology Report Generation

Radiology report generation with selective prediction and confidence calibration.

1 download
Medical Imaging & RadiologyRC-MIR-05

CondDiffMed: Conditional Diffusion Models for Synthetic Medical Image Generation

High-fidelity, conditioned synthesis of multi-modal medical images to address data scarcity in rare diseases.

1 download
Medical Imaging & RadiologyRC-MIR-08

FedHistoSSL: Federated Self-Supervised Learning for Histopathology Foundation Models

Privacy-preserving multi-institutional pre-training of vision transformers for cancer classification on WSIs.

1 download
Medical Imaging & RadiologyRC-MIR-10

DistillPath: Multi-Teacher Knowledge Distillation for Resource-Efficient Pathology Foundation Models

Compact vision transformers for clinical-grade whole-slide image analysis.

0 downloads
Medical Imaging & RadiologyRC-MIR-11

Pathology-Conditional Diffusion Models for Synthetic Brain MRI in Rare Neurological Disorders

DiffMRI-RC: rare-condition diffusion models for high-fidelity 3D brain MRI with anatomical and pathological control.

0 downloads
Medical Imaging & RadiologyRC-MIR-12

Self-Supervised Learning for 3D Medical Image Segmentation

Masked autoencoder and contrastive pre-training on volumetric CT and MRI.

0 downloads
Medical Imaging & RadiologyRC-MIR-14

AdaPrompt-Seg: Adaptive Visual Prompting for Continual Test-Time Domain Adaptation

Mitigating catastrophic forgetting via sparse learnable priors and momentum-guided prompt updating in medical segmentation.

0 downloads
Medical Imaging & RadiologyRC-MIR-15

Test-Time Compute Adaptation with Dirichlet Uncertainty Calibration for Medical Image Classification

Test-time compute adaptation with Dirichlet uncertainty calibration for medical image classification.

1 download
Genomics, Single-Cell & Spatial TranscriptomicsRC-GSS-01

CausalMolInt: Causal Representation Learning for Single-Cell Multi-Omics Integration

A unified framework for multi-modal generative modelling with structural causal inference and perturbation prediction.

0 downloads
Genomics, Single-Cell & Spatial TranscriptomicsRC-GSS-02

DiffTraj: Diffusion Models for Single-Cell Trajectory Inference and Cell Fate Prediction

Diffusion models for trajectory inference from multi-omics time-series data.

0 downloads
Genomics, Single-Cell & Spatial TranscriptomicsRC-GSS-04

EpigenoDiff: Conditional Diffusion Models for Cross-Modal Prediction of scATAC-seq from scRNA-seq

Probabilistic chromatin accessibility inference with cell-type conditioning and regulatory interpretability.

0 downloads
Genomics, Single-Cell & Spatial TranscriptomicsRC-GSS-05

EpiRegFormer: Epigenomic Foundation Model for Tissue-Specific Gene Regulatory Element Prediction

Multimodal cross-attention fusion of DNA sequence and epigenomic profiles for enhancer, promoter, silencer, and insulator classification.

0 downloads
Genomics, Single-Cell & Spatial TranscriptomicsRC-GSS-06

SeqMamba: Bidirectional State Space Models for Whole-Genome Sequence Modelling

A scalable genomic foundation model with linear complexity and single-nucleotide resolution for variant effect prediction.

0 downloads
Genomics, Single-Cell & Spatial TranscriptomicsRC-GSS-11

EpiTranLooper: Multi-Task Transformer for Chromatin Loops and Epigenomic Modifications

Multi-task deep learning for integrated 3D genome and epigenome profiling from Nanopore sequencing data.

0 downloads
Genomics, Single-Cell & Spatial TranscriptomicsRC-GSS-13

RNA-SPACE: RNA-Spatial Proteomics and Transcriptomics via Cross-Modal Embedding

Foundation model synthesis of spatial multi-omics from bulk RNA-seq for immune checkpoint blockade response prediction.

0 downloads
Clinical AI, EHR & Causal ReasoningRC-CAICR-02

MemAdapt-CL: Continual Learning for Medical Image Classification with Memory Replay

A diversity-aware adaptive framework for dynamic clinical environments and continual medical image classification.

1 download
Clinical AI, EHR & Causal ReasoningRC-CAICR-04

KG-ClinRAG: Knowledge Graph-Guided Clinical Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Multi-evidence grounding for hallucination-resistant clinical question answering with large language models.

0 downloads
Clinical AI, EHR & Causal ReasoningRC-CAICR-05

Neuro-Symbolic Clinical Reasoning Framework (NSCRF)

Bidirectional integration of deep learning and symbolic logic for explainable multi-modal diagnostic decision support.

0 downloads
Microbiology, CRISPR & ImmunologyRC-MCI-01

UMCRISPR: Uncertainty-Aware Multi-View Deep Learning for CRISPR-Cas9 Off-Target Prediction

Robust CRISPR-Cas9 off-target prediction with uncertainty-aware multi-view deep learning.

2 downloads
Microbiology, CRISPR & ImmunologyRC-MCI-02

CellCRISPR: Cell-Type-Specific Guide RNA Design with Multi-Task Deep Learning

Precision CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing through unified gRNA efficiency and off-target prediction.

1 download
LLM & AI MethodologyRC-LLM-01

MetaCert-LLM: Metacognitive Self-Assessment for Uncertainty Quantification in LLMs

A metacognitive self-assessment framework for reliable uncertainty quantification and confidence calibration in large language models.

1 download
LLM & AI MethodologyRC-LLM-02

ProtOpt-LLM: Large Language Model-Driven Protocol Optimisation

Iterative eligibility criteria refinement for clinical trials via real-world evidence simulation.

2 downloads
Finance, Economics & OtherRC-FEO-01

XAI-FINCAST: Explainable Hybrid LSTM-Transformer Framework for Financial Market Forecasting

An explainable hybrid LSTM-Transformer with SHAP-LIME integration for interpretable market forecasting.

5 downloads

Free 5-Day Email Course

Want to write your own proposal, not just read one?

These sample proposals show you what a finished document looks like. The free course shows you how to build one from scratch for your own topic, using AI. Five days, nine prompt templates, one complete proposal.

Start the Free Course