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

Anthropic has opened grant applications under its AI for Science program with a focused call on rare genetic diseases, offering accepted applicants up to $50,000 in Claude API credits over six months. The program runs two parallel tracks: one supporting basic science researchers and clinical consortia (including a partnership with the Monarch Initiative and its DisMech disease-classification library), and one targeting early-stage biotechs seeking to compress rare disease drug development timelines. Anthropic estimates AI can accelerate regulatory dossier assembly, therapeutic target selection, and cross-disease mechanism discovery—areas where current timelines run one to two years from confirmed diagnosis to available treatment. Applications are open through August 2, 2026, with outputs from the basic science track to be made publicly available via the Monarch Initiative.