Anthropic Opens Life Sciences Research Applications

Anthropic is inviting principal investigators and research groups at academic institutions, nonprofits and government labs to apply for 8–12-week collaborations with its researchers. Projects should use Claude to investigate causal human biology, structural and computational molecular biology, medicinal chemistry, drug discovery or clinical science. Anthropic says its team will run models and harnesses at no cost to participants.

Guest investigators will work directly with Anthropic researchers and produce analyses, artifacts and tools useful to their work. Anthropic plans to publish the outputs and open-source accompanying data and code. Investigators retain rights to their data throughout the project and to any independent follow-on research arising from the collaboration.

Applicants should explain how collaboration with Anthropic researchers would benefit their project and show that proposed outputs—such as preliminary discoveries, answers to open questions, open-source datasets or public resources—can be produced within 8–12 weeks. Some projects may be extended. Anthropic says it understands that validating most open problems will take longer, so it seeks proposals able to produce preliminary evidence relatively quickly.

Applicants are not asked to provide data, either in applications or during the collaboration, and application materials should contain only publicly available information. Applications will remain open for approximately 14 days; Anthropic says it will strive to notify selected participants by email approximately 14 days after applications close. The company says the program is one of several initiatives to invest more heavily in life sciences and broader scientific research. Other efforts include the Life Sciences Verification Program, offering direct access to publicly available Claude models for biology, and the AI for Science initiative, which provides scientists with Claude credits.

Anthropic is inviting principal investigators and research groups at academic institutions, nonprofits and government labs to apply for 8–12-week collaborations with its researchers. Projects should use Claude to investigate causal human biology, structural and computational molecular biology, medicinal chemistry, drug discovery or clinical science. Anthropic says its team will run models and harnesses at no cost to participants.

Guest investigators will work directly with Anthropic researchers and produce analyses, artifacts and tools useful to their work. Anthropic plans to publish the outputs and open-source accompanying data and code. Investigators retain rights to their data throughout the project and to any independent follow-on research arising from the collaboration.

Applicants should explain how collaboration with Anthropic researchers would benefit their project and show that proposed outputs—such as preliminary discoveries, answers to open questions, open-source datasets or public resources—can be produced within 8–12 weeks. Some projects may be extended. Anthropic says it understands that validating most open problems will take longer, so it seeks proposals able to produce preliminary evidence relatively quickly.

Applicants are not asked to provide data, either in applications or during the collaboration, and application materials should contain only publicly available information. Applications will remain open for approximately 14 days; Anthropic says it will strive to notify selected participants by email approximately 14 days after applications close. The company says the program is one of several initiatives to invest more heavily in life sciences and broader scientific research. Other efforts include the Life Sciences Verification Program, offering direct access to publicly available Claude models for biology, and the AI for Science initiative, which provides scientists with Claude credits.