2026 AI Agent for Genomics and Cancer Hackathon

Our lab recently ran an AI agent hackathon to solve real genomics workflow pain points using ReAct, Plan-and-Execute, Router patterns, tool calling, RAG, and safety guardrails.

Why an AI Agent Hackathon?

Modern genomics research increasingly depends on complex, multi-step computational workflows. This hackathon was designed to help our team internalize agent concepts, planning, tool use, context engineering, and safety, and apply them to real bottlenecks in practical analysis and biological and clinical interpretation.

Award Winners

🏆 Implementation Excellence Award — Most complete, robust, and usable
Tian Le

🏆 Innovation Award — Most creative agent design or novel technique integration
Gloria (Wenting) Song

🏆 Impact Award — Highest immediate value to daily research workflows
Xusheng Ai

Explore prototypes built by lab members, including our wet-lab personnel! Each project includes the problem, agent architecture, techniques, safety guardrails, and product demonstration.

View full hackathon details and project highlights →