Anthropic invites life scientists to co-research projects
Anthropic has opened applications for academic, nonprofit and government life-science labs to spend 8–12 weeks working with its researchers using Claude, with compute free and outputs open-sourced.
Anthropic announced an open call for "guest investigators": principal investigators and their research groups at academic institutions, nonprofits or government labs. Selected groups will use Claude on questions in causal human biology, structural and computational molecular biology, medicinal chemistry, drug discovery and clinical science.
Each collaboration runs 8–12 weeks. Guest investigators work directly with Anthropic researchers on a problem they choose and produce analyses, artifacts and tools for their own work. Anthropic will run its models and harnesses at no cost to the participants. The company says some projects may be extended beyond the initial period.
The two sides will publish the outputs together and open-source the data and code that go with them. Investigators keep the rights to their data throughout and to any independent follow-on research. Anthropic says it is not asking for participants' data, either in applications or during the collaboration, and wants applications to include only publicly available information.
Applicants need to explain how direct collaboration would help them and show they can produce something within the window, such as preliminary discoveries, answers to open questions, datasets or public resources. Anthropic acknowledges that most open problems will take much longer to validate.
Applications are open for about 14 days. Anthropic aims to notify selected participants by email roughly 14 days after the call closes. The company did not say how many projects it will fund.
The program adds to Anthropic's Life Sciences Verification Program, which gives scientists access to its most capable public models for biology, and its AI for Science initiative, which provides Claude credits.