Microsoft Research

Summary

Microsoft Research (MSR) is the research division of Microsoft, conducting foundational and applied research in computer science, biology, and healthcare. Its Biomedical Machine Learning groups focus on applying deep learning, generative AI, and scale computing to biological problems. MSR researchers co-authored a comprehensive evaluation of Single-Cell Foundation Models, exploring their pretraining data scaling properties (as of 2026-06-09).

Research Areas

MSR has active groups in AI for Health and Science: - Biomedical Foundation Models: Designing neural network models to represent proteins, cellular states, and tissues. - Deep Generative Chemistry: Designing novel molecules and predicting chemical reactions using generative models. - Scale Computing: Developing hardware and software infrastructures optimized for training large biomedical models.

Citations

• Microsoft Research Website: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/ (as of 2026-07-19)
• Key Publication: DenAdel, A. et al. (2026). Evaluating the role of pretraining dataset size and diversity on single-cell foundation model performance. Nature Methods, 23, 1447–1457. DOI: 10.1038/s41592-026-03120-y. Source paper: s41592-026-03120-y.pdf