Eric Kauderer-Abrams leads is the Head of Life Sciences at Anthropic, where he runs the company's effort to make Claude useful for drug development, basic research, and more. He launched Claude for Life Sciences, working with partners on applications spanning drug discovery, clinical trials, and regulatory work.Before Anthropic, he co-founded and served as CEO and CTO of Detect, a molecular diagnostics company that brought an FDA-authorized at-home COVID test to market, and earlier co-founded companies at the intersection of AI and MedTech. He did graduate research in AI and neuroscience at Stanford, following undergraduate training in mathematics and physics at Penn.