Founded in 2024, AITHYRA seeks to build Europe’s premier institute for AI-driven biological and medical research, uniting computer scientists, engineers, and biologists in a collaborative environment that fuses the mindset and agility of start-ups with the freedom of curiosity-driven academic environment.
AITHYRA is a new, dynamic institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, dedicated to advancing a biomedical revolution by connecting cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence with transformative Life Science research. Supported through generous funding from the not-for-profit Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation and hosted by the Austrian Academy of Sciences, AITHYRA is building a world-class environment where AI specialists, experimental scientists, and engineers collaborate to push the boundaries of biomedical innovation. In 2025, AITHYRA moved into its first laboratory and office space in the Marxbox at the Vienna BioCenter. In cooperation with the Vienna Business Agency, a new