The inaugural cohort comprises 10 undergraduate scholars, including students from India, Vietnam, Qatar and Dubai, creating opportunities for scientific collaboration and exchange across Asia. The students represent universities across Asia and are pursuing undergraduate programmes in science, engineering and related disciplines, reflecting the programme’s regional diversity and academic excellence.

As part of the intensive two-month residential research programme, the students will explore artificial intelligence and machine learning applications in fundamental sciences, drug design and discovery, healthcare, cheminformatics, genomics and related areas alongside faculty mentors at IIIT Hyderabad.

They will also have an opportunity to participate in seminars, networking events and the regional Amgen Scholars Symposium to be held in Tokyo in August 2026. At the conclusion of the programme, each scholar will present their research through a scientific poster presentation.