A Better Way to Discover Tissue
An AI-powered search agent and recommendation tool for brain tissue samples.
Oskar is an early-stage, AI-powered platform built to help researchers more easily discover and assess human tissue samples for their studies.
Designed for How Scientists Search
Oskar lets researchers use natural language to search for tissue samples. Turning complex criteria into clear, actionable results without manual back-and-forth.
Built on Trusted Data
The platform is currently powered by publicly available data from the NIH NeuroBioBank, providing a transparent and credible foundation for discovery.
Designed to Grow Across Brain Banks
Oskar is built with a scalable architecture that can support integration with additional datasets and brain banks over time.
Respects Existing Workflows
The platform reduces friction in tissue discovery without asking institutions to change how they manage, govern, or distribute samples.
Why We Built Oskar
Tissue discovery today is slow, manual, fragmented, and opaque.
Researchers rely on emails, spreadsheets, PDFs, and personal relationships.
Tissue banks are overloaded with repetitive, low-value coordination work.
Oskar exists to bridge this gap. The platform provides a clear, structured way for researchers to discover relevant samples, while giving brain banks better tools to manage access, oversight, and coordination at scale.
About Oskar Fischer
Oskar is named in honor of Oskar Fischer, a psychiatrist and neuropathologist whose early work helped define the pathological features of what is now known as Alzheimer's disease. In 1907 and 1910, Fischer published detailed clinico-pathological studies describing amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles across hundreds of brains, work that laid critical groundwork for the field. For years, these structures were commonly referred to as "Fischer's plaques."
Despite his contributions, Fischer's role has largely faded from public recognition. His academic career was cut short under Nazi occupation, and he died in imprisonment in 1942.
We chose the name Oskar to acknowledge his scientific rigor, his commitment to careful observation, and the many contributors to neuroscience whose work underpins modern research but is not always remembered.