OpenAI Foundation launches Data for Public Health: $40M to UNC for cancer-vaccine datasets
On September 15, 2026, the OpenAI Foundation announced Public Data for Health / Data for Public Health, with $40 million to UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center to generate multimodal data that could improve personalized cancer vaccines, plus support for OpenAdmet. MIT Technology Review and UNC itself detailed the bet: higher-quality biological observations so models can advance medicine.