By Ákos Tényi, E-Group
The E-Group team is energized after a fantastic week at the International Conference on Systems Biology (ICSB) 2025, where I together with Tamás Nagy represented the company as an Exhibiting Partner. We were thrilled to showcase our FedX platform and share our latest research, presented in collaboration with the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME). This joint effort was led by Péter Antal, who heads the Artificial Intelligence Research Group at BME and also works with us at E-Group, perfectly embodying the synergy between academia and industry.
Key Conference Insights
The conference was filled with fascinating presentations and offered deep insights into the current landscape of systems biology. A major challenge echoing through the halls was the difficulty of processing and managing terabyte-scale data, especially from complex fields like proteomics. It’s clear that the future of biological research hinges on our ability to securely and efficiently analyze massive, distributed datasets.
FedX: The Sovereign AI Solution
This is precisely where our Sovereign AI platform, FedX, comes in. We designed FedX to help research programs tackle these exact problems. It provides robust data access management for multiple participants and users, and is built to handle terabyte-scale data with ease. The core principle is simple but powerful: “Data stays – AI travels”. This allows institutions to collaborate without moving sensitive data, breaking down legal and technical barriers and accelerating the path from concept to discovery.
FedX is already an operationally validated platform used across major European health data ecosystems, including 8 biobanks and the 50+ partner Helix Health Data Space. As one of our partners, a Clinical Geneticist at Semmelweis University, noted, “For the first time, we can perform federated queries across multiple institutions without moving the data or compromising privacy”.
Collaboration and Cutting-Edge Research
Collaboration is the lifeblood of systems biology, a theme that was powerfully reinforced by the great networking possibilities at ICSB 2025. The fantastic conference dinner and welcome reception organized by the hosts provided the perfect backdrop for forging new connections and strengthening existing partnerships. Our own partnership with the Budapest University of Technology and Economics on the research poster, “Cross-Biobank Analysis by Transformers,” is a testament to that collaborative spirit. Our joint presentation showcased a novel transformer architecture (MQTT) that creates unified representations from diverse patient data—including genetic, laboratory, and prescription information—to better understand and predict disease. By using federated learning, we can train these powerful models across different biobanks securely and efficiently.
The Future is Agentic
We also see the rise of agentic AI finding its way into systems biology research, and we’re excited to be at the forefront of this wave with our agentic platform, empowering researchers with more intelligent and autonomous tools for discovery.
Our time at ICSB 2025 has reinforced our commitment to providing the tools that drive groundbreaking research. We believe that by enabling secure, scalable, and intelligent data analysis, we can help the systems biology community unlock the next generation of medical insights.