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Yale School of Medicine / Yale Cancer Center
Home of the Cell2Sentence single-cell language models built with Google, and an NCI-designated comprehensive cancer centre.
Overview
Yale School of Medicine and Yale Cancer Center in New Haven form an NCI-designated comprehensive cancer centre and the home of the Cell2Sentence single-cell language models built with Google. David van Dijk's lab developed Cell2Sentence and C2S-Scale with Google DeepMind and Google Research, representing cells as text so that general language models can reason about them, and a C2S-Scale hypothesis about interferon sensitisation was validated in vitro in 2025. OnCo connects it to the Cell2Sentence technology record, to the Yale University Open Data Access Project, and to the virtual cell roadmap. Whether language-model reasoning over cells produces hypotheses that hold up in patients is the open question. Its Cell2Sentence and Yale Cancer Center programmes are listed below.
Location
New Haven, CT, US
Type
university · Yale University
Website
Newsweek 2026 oncology rank
Not in top 300 listing used
NCI designation
comprehensive
OnCo score
#250 · 25 points (0 Newsweek + 15 NCI + 10 from 5 linked objects) · ranking
Research output
From OpenAlex, oncology works in the last five years (2022 to 2026, current year in progress); counted on 2026-09-17.
Matched to Indiana University School of Medicine, including child institutions. 871 works · 7,753 citations · 68% open access · 5% clinical trials · 3% reviews.
Oncology works per year
1832022
1782023
1962024
1692025
1452026
Most works
- Douglas K. Rex66 works
- Cesare Hassan32 works
- Thomas F. Imperiale29 works
- Roupen Djinbachian24 works
- Alessandro Repici23 works
- Bryan P. Schneider21 works
- Aladdin H. Hassanein20 works
- C. Max Schmidt19 works
- Marco Spadaccini19 works
- Misty Dawn Shields18 works
Most cited
- Cell2Sentence / C2S-Scale
- Yale Cancer Center
Eric P. Winer
Director, Yale Cancer Center; President and Physician-in-Chief, Smilow Cancer Hospital; Deputy Dean for Cancer Research, Yale School of Medicine
Breast cancerHER2-positive breast cancerClinical trial design
Breast cancer specialist who leads Yale Cancer Center and Smilow Cancer Hospital, and who previously ran breast oncology at Dana-Farber for more than two decades.
Lieping Chen
United Technologies Corporation Professor in Cancer Research, Yale School of Medicine
PD-L1 biologyTumour immune evasionCheckpoint discovery
Discovered PD-L1 (B7-H1) and showed tumours use it to escape immunity, the biology behind every anti-PD-1 drug.
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Open-source projects
All open source in oncology →Open-source projects that this organisation maintains, from OnCo's own catalogue: licence and last activity as the repository reported them on the day of the fetch. Listing is not endorsement; check the licence before reuse and the validation before clinical use.
Yale and Google's approach that turns single cells into text so language models can reason over them; C2S-Scale weights are released.