Open Call for Life Sciences Guest Investigators at Anthropic!

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What was announced?

Anthropic News announced an open call for guest investigators in the life sciences (titled "Open call for guest investigators in the life sciences").

Selected guest investigators work with Anthropic researchers for 8 to 12 weeks to produce analyses, artifacts and tools for their own work. Anthropic runs its models and harnesses for them at no cost.

Why it matters

Anthropic is offering a slot where researchers can work directly with its researchers, not just use the models on their own. It's one more sign of AI being applied to life sciences research.

The announcement also mentions two related programs:

• The Life Sciences Verification Program: vetted scientists get direct access to Anthropic's most capable publicly available biology models
• AI for Science: provides Claude credits to researchers

What changes

For eligible researchers, this is a chance to get free model access and hands-on collaboration with Anthropic's researchers. Outputs are published, and the data and code are open-sourced.

Dive Deep

Eligibility

• Principal investigators and their research groups at academic institutions, nonprofits or government labs
• Proposals should cover causal human biology, structural and computational molecular biology, medicinal chemistry, drug discovery or clinical science
• Explain how direct collaboration with Anthropic's researchers would benefit you
• Make a reasonable case that you can produce preliminary outputs, such as discoveries, open-source datasets or public resources, within the collaboration period
• Some projects may be extended

Terms

• Outputs are published, and the accompanying data and code are open-sourced
• Guest investigators keep the rights to their data and to any independent follow-on research
• You don't provide your data, either in the application or during the project. Application materials should include only publicly available information

Timeline

• Applications are open for about 14 days from the announcement. The announcement doesn't give an exact closing date
• Selected applicants are notified by email about 14 days after applications close
• The collaboration runs 8 to 12 weeks

To apply, submit a project proposal at https://www.anthropic.com/guest-investigator-program.

Wrap-up

• An open call for life sciences guest investigators
• 8 to 12 weeks of collaboration with Anthropic's researchers, with free model access
• Outputs are published and data and code are open-sourced; researchers keep rights to their data
• Applications are open for about 14 days, with notification about 14 days after they close

This is for research groups in drug discovery, molecular biology and clinical science!