Become an xVivo AI scholar and disrupt the pharmaceutical industry!

Therence Bois
xVivo AI
Published in
2 min readJul 8, 2018

Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the landscape of many industries. Industries like manufacturing, farming, and services are starting to see the effects of cutting-edge companies using AI. The pharmaceutical industry is next and is ripe for reinvention.

Several companies have started to use AI to reshape the pharmaceutical R&D workflow, and InVivo AI is one of them.

The xVivo AI scholarship

Students are often underestimated, yet at the same time they’re some of the most innovative, motivated, and impactful people around. At InVivo AI, we believe that school is an entrepreneurial sweet-spot, one in which students can experiment, tinker, and explore before going all-in on a single idea. We founded InVivo AI while we were still full-time grad students, trying to launch a company while at the same time balancing heavy lab obligations, so we were able to live this experience firsthand.

Now we want to double-down on student entrepreneurship with the xVivo AI Scholars Program. The goal of the program is to provide a tailor-made entrepreneurial experience to students who want to work on something big, without having to give up their academic commitments. Projects will be customized according to the interests and skill-set of the applicant. Fellowships are limited and will be awarded on a rolling basis. If you want to use technology to help solve some of the biggest challenges faced by today’s pharmaceutical industry, we want to hear from you!

Am I eligible to apply? Ideal applicants will:

  • Be enrolled as a full-time student (undergrad, master’s, or PhD) or employed as a postdoc at an accredited university institution.
  • Be able to consistently commit a fixed amount of weekly hours to working on a part-time basis.
  • Have a strong understanding of machine learning, computer science, and statistics, acquired either through academic study, internships, or independent/personal projects.
  • Have a basic understanding of and interest in molecular biology, pharmacology, and the drug discovery process (and if not, a strong willingness to learn).
  • Be extremely independent and self-motivated, and be comfortable with ambiguity and uncertainty in day-to-day tasks.
  • Be able to demonstrate some prior interest in entrepreneurship and/or startups (ideally).

Applications are now open at:

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Therence Bois
xVivo AI

PhD candidate in molecular and cellular medicine, Partner at Front Row Ventures