A cancer mapping technology developed by researchers at Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine has been chosen to participate in Anthropic’s AI for Science program.
The research project, called AstroPath, is led by Johns Hopkins astrophysicist Alexander Szalay, PhD, and Johns Hopkins’ Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center pathologist Janis Taube, MD, according to an Oct. 29 news release from Johns Hopkins Medicine.
Participation in the AI for Science program gives researchers free credits to use Anthropic’s Claude AI models. Anthropic launched the program in May 2025 to give researchers access to AI tools. Projects are selected based on their scientific contributions, potential reach and how much AI could speed their work, the release said.
The AstroPath platform maps how cancer cells interact with other cells inside tumors. The platform adapts the data infrastructure behind the Sloan Digital Sky Survey — which charted billions of stars and galaxies — to locate cells within tumors.The team uses AI to build and analyze cancer maps, with the aim of identifying biomarkers that can predict which patients are most likely to benefit from immunotherapy.
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