Apply for Anthropic's AI for Science Rare Disease Research Grants

Anthropic has launched thematic calls within its AI for Science program, with rare genetic disease research as the inaugural focus area. Recipients can receive up to $50,000 in Claude credits over six months.

Details

• Application deadline: August 2, 2026, 11:59 PM PST, via a Google Form
• Grant amount: Up to $50,000 in Claude credits per recipient, provided over six months
• Two program tracks:
  • Track One (Basic Science Partnerships): Supports collaboration between clinical researchers, patient organizations, and data scientists. Early partner Monarch Initiative is providing the Mondo Disease Ontology, the Monarch Knowledge Graph, and DisMech — an “agent-friendly mechanistic disease classification library” that lets Claude identify similarities between diseases across case reports and databases at scale
  • Track Two (Biotech Partnerships): Supports biotechnologists and early-stage companies accelerating drug development, with potential applications including compressing documentation timelines, selecting therapeutic strategies, and identifying mechanisms shared across genetic therapies to consolidate basket trials
• Example project areas:
  • Track One: ranking mechanistic links between rare diseases that share genes or pathways, curating patient organization data for natural history studies, and developing evaluation measures for rare disease AI tasks
  • Track Two: justifying drug dosing from limited data using modeling approaches, mining natural history data for sensitive biomarkers, and drafting regulatory documentation to speed up timelines
• Partner organizations: Monarch Initiative, Every Cure, Centre for Population Genomics, and Violet Research Institute
• Limitations Anthropic acknowledges: Claude can’t address problems where the underlying data is insufficient or poorly organized, nor can it resolve non-technical barriers such as insurance authorization or access to diagnostic facilities

How to try it

• Applications are open now via the Google Form, due August 2, 2026 at 11:59 PM PST
• Full eligibility details and example focus areas are available on Anthropic’s official announcement page