Obesity Machine Learning Competition: Tackling Metabolic Diseases - Overview

The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center at the Ó³»­´«Ã½ and Crunch DAO are proud to launch our new machine learning challenge: the Obesity Machine Learning Challenge: Tackling Metabolic Diseases. This challenge is developed in partnership with the Ó³»­´«Ã½ Diabetes Initiative, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

Obesity affects more than 890 million people worldwide and dramatically increases risks of type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and certain cancers. You will predict how gene perturbations made using CRISPR/Cas9 influence the fate of adipocytes, the pivotal cells in our body related to obesity. Adipocytes are specialized cells storing our body’s fat that can differentiate into energy-storing or energy-burning cells. Top predictions will be experimentally validated in Ó³»­´«Ã½ labs.

The challenge will run from December 2025 - April 2026.

No biology background is needed as we will teach you the basics of obesity and metabolic diseases through a series of online lectures specific to the challenge.

Learn more and register at .