Andrew Hickl

CTO, Allen Institute. Advisor,

[Rui Costa @ruimcosta]

Today I am proud to announce the launch of the Brain Health Accelerator, a global initiative to transform our understanding of brain disease and accelerate the development of new treatments.

For more than 20 years, the @AllenInstitute has built foundational data, tools, technologies, and knowledge that have helped reshape neuroscience. Today, we are taking the next step: bringing together scientists, clinicians, technologists, AI experts, patient advocates, philanthropists, and industry partners around a shared mission to tackle some of the world’s most devastating brain diseases.

#BrainHealth will initially focus on Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease, ALS, and Lewy body disease, while building a radically open and collaborative framework designed to accelerate progress across many neurological disorders.

This effort launches with a total commitment of more than $400 million, including $200 million from the Allen Institute (supported by the Fund for Science and Technology), $100 million from the Bezos family, and an additional $100 million from @awscloud, @NIH-supported programs, and @Everything_ALS.

We believe the future of brain health will be built through unprecedented collaboration, cutting-edge biology, advanced AI, and open science.

Science unites us. Together, we can go farther and create a healthier world.

#BrainHealth #Neuroscience #OpenScience #AI #BrainInitiative #NIH #Neurodegeneration #Alzheimers #LewyBodyDisease #Parkinsons #ALS #HuntingtonsDisease

[Andrew Hickl @AndyHickl]

My life is made better by these two exceptional people who happen to be incredible authors: @SussilloDavid and @blaiseaguera #gratitude

[David Sussillo @SussilloDavid]

Deeply honored, @blaiseaguera. Thank you for engaging with my story and highlight my work. 🙏

[Vega Shah @dr_alphalyrae]

A deep reinforcement learning platform for antibiotic discovery https://t.co/7wTAEu6Bqt

[omri_drory @omri_drory]

When @sama or Jensen Huang talk about AI’s amazing future, they’re not talking about chatbots.

They’re talking about biology.

[Chuanming @ChuanmingLiu]

Speech and Language Processing (3rd ed. draft)
Dan Jurafsky and James H. Martin
August 24, 2025 release!

https://t.co/GTBUA1RzVy

[Eric W. Tramel @fujikanaeda]

If the engineering is beneath you, then the research is beyond you.

[Andrew Hickl @AndyHickl]

Took a much needed break from the erg tonight—just under 33 mi rowed this week. Gonna do a two hour set tomorrow. It really helps keep my #pd symptoms manageable. #BrainHealth #movementIsMedicine

[Andrew Hickl @AndyHickl]

That’s my team! Excited about the work we’re doing to integrate AI into scientific workflows!

[allen institute @AllenInstitute]

AI is quickly becoming a partner in scientific discovery, sparking important philosophical questions.

Help us bring this important discussion to the SXSW community by voting for "The New Lab Partner: AI and Future Scientific Discovery."

🗳️ https://t.co/2KMYszVPVS

[Rui Costa @ruimcosta]

Together we go farther.

Thanks to a partnership with @ASAP_Research and @MichaelJFoxOrg, the @AllenInstitute's ABC Atlas now includes #ParkinsonsDisease data from 3 million brain cells from 9 regions.

This is the first time Parkinson’s data has been included in the Atlas. It nearly doubles the amount of human brain data available and gives researchers a shared language and a powerful tool to explore how diseases like #Parkinsons and #Alzheimers affect the brain at the cellular level.

https://t.co/zEeP6L7srL

[Andrew Hickl @AndyHickl]

Time to try something new.