Anthropic has announced "Built with Claude: Life Sciences," a global virtual hackathon focused on the life sciences field. Running for one week from July 7 to 13, 2026, it offers a prize pool of $100,000 in Claude API credits.
July 2 · Anthropic × Gladstone Institutes
A Global Hackathon to Put Claude in the Lab
"Built with Claude: Life Sciences" runs July 7–13 as a one-week virtual event, pairing the new Claude Science workbench and Claude Code with real biomedical expertise — for a $100,000 prize pool.
$100K
prize pool in API credits
500
slots · two-person teams
60+
scientific skills & connectors
7 days
virtual, July 7–13, 2026
Two funding tracks compared — credits per project ($K)
$30K
"AI for Science"
$100K
Hackathon
What teams get
Claude Max access
$200 in API credits
Claude Science (beta) + Claude Code
Research / Build tracks
Inside Claude Science
Genomics, proteomics, cheminformatics
PubMed, UniProt, PDB, Ensembl, ChEMBL
BioNeMo: Evo 2, Boltz-2, OpenFold3
Reproducible output with audit trail
The compute agent scales across environments
Local machines
→
HPC
→
Modal
→
Reviewer agent checks citations & calculations
Received favorably
The Gladstone partnership adds real-lab practicality. In past hackathons, non-engineers — physicians, technicians, teachers — built working tools fast and placed among top finishers.
Open questions
Safety guardrails may block prompts tied to biological experiments, and a few question the idea of gamifying life sciences.
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