A full-stack institute for AI and biology research.

Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Arc Institute is a nonprofit research organization founded on the belief that many important scientific programs can be enabled by new organizational models.

Arc’s mission is to accelerate scientific progress, understand the root causes of complex diseases, and narrow the gap between discoveries and impact on patients. Arc operates in partnership with Stanford University, UCSF, and UC Berkeley.

Arc provides scientists with multi-year funding to work on their most important ideas and invests in the rapid development of experimental and computational technological tools.

As individuals, Arc researchers collaborate across diverse disciplines to advance our understanding—and eventual treatment—of complex diseases, including cancer, neurodegeneration, and immune dysfunction.