Non-profit · Open-source · Breast cancer

Open hope for breast cancer research.

OpenElpis is building a trustworthy AI research copilot for breast cancer — powered by validated, expert-reviewed medical knowledge from clinicians, researchers and universities, and free for the research community.

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🔬 Validated contributions 📑 Citation-grounded answers 🔓 Open & non-profit
See it in action

Citation-grounded answers — live in the portal.

This is how the OpenElpis copilot answers research questions: grounded in validated sources, with citations. It's live now inside the member portal.

OpenElpis copilot Example
What's known about endocrine resistance in HR-positive breast cancer?
Endocrine resistance in HR-positive breast cancer is commonly linked to ESR1 mutations, CDK4/6 pathway activation, and PI3K/AKT/mTOR signaling. CDK4/6 inhibitors combined with endocrine therapy have shown improved outcomes [1, 2].
Sources: 2 validated references[1][2]
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🔒 The copilot is live inside the member portal — for verified clinicians, researchers & universities, by invitation or approved request.

Why OpenElpis

Why not just use ChatGPT or Gemini?

General chatbots are built to sound convincing — and they will confidently invent studies, numbers and citations that don't exist. In research and medicine, a plausible wrong answer is more dangerous than no answer. OpenElpis works the opposite way: it answers only from a library of validated, expert-reviewed articles, and every claim points to a real source you can open and check. If the evidence isn't there, it tells you — it never guesses.

A general AI chatbot

  • Sounds confident — even when it's wrong
  • Can invent studies, figures and citations
  • Pulls from the whole internet — quality unknown

The OpenElpis copilot

  • Answers only from validated, expert-reviewed sources
  • Every claim cites a real source you can open
  • Says "the sources don't cover this" instead of guessing

It isn't here to replace your judgment — it's a copilot that puts the evidence in front of you, so you stay in control.

Open to everyone

Browse the open research library — no account needed.

The same validated corpus that grounds the copilot is open for anyone to search and read: a growing library of peer-reviewed articles, preprints, clinical trials and books on breast cancer. The AI copilot, translation and community tools stay with members.

The vision

Knowledge breast-cancer researchers can trust — answered by AI that shows its sources.

Breast cancer is the most-researched cancer in the world — and still, thousands of papers a week, de-identified findings, and hard-won clinical insight never reach the people who could use them. OpenElpis starts here: the trustworthy middle layer for breast-cancer research — validated in, citation-grounded out.

Validated knowledge

Every contribution is identity-verified, reviewed by breast-cancer specialists, and permanently provenance-tracked. Trust is the product.

Citation-grounded AI

The copilot retrieves from a curated, peer-reviewed breast-cancer corpus and shows every source. It surfaces evidence — it never invents it.

Open & non-profit

Open-source code, open methods, transparent data integrity. Free for the research community — no paywalls, no lock-in.

Safe by design

No patient-identifiable data early; ethics and governance come first. OpenElpis offers research hypotheses — never diagnosis or treatment advice.

The road ahead

Deep in breast cancer first — then every cancer.

We prove the trust pipeline on safe, public breast-cancer knowledge, then extend the exact same machinery to other cancers.

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Now · Foundation

Verified contributors & a breast-cancer literature copilot

Identity verification, expert review, and a citation-grounded RAG copilot over reviewed breast-cancer literature. No patient data.

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Next · Structured data

De-identified datasets, versioned & validated

Schema-checked, de-identified breast-cancer datasets (genomics, lab values) with reproducible versioning and contributor reputation.

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Later · Imaging & models

Breast-specific specialist models, under ethics oversight

Mammography, histopathology & omics with de-identification pipelines, data-use agreements, and IRB/ethics governance first.

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Beyond · Expand

From breast cancer to every cancer

Once the trust pipeline is proven, the same platform extends to other cancers — and toward federated learning, where models reach hospital data while raw data never leaves the institution.

Our sponsors

The organizations powering open breast-cancer research.

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The team

The people behind OpenElpis.

Ali Tajbakhsh — founder of OpenElpis (also known as Mohammadali Tajbakhsh and Alan Tajbakhsh)

Ali Tajbakhsh

Co-founder

Building OpenElpis to make trustworthy, evidence-grounded breast-cancer knowledge open and free for everyone.

Tuğçe Şahin — co-founder of OpenElpis

Tuğçe Şahin

Co-founder

Helping build OpenElpis into a trusted, open home for breast-cancer research.