Industrial Affiliate Program
3 Membership Levels, 3-Year Commitment
All tiers provide unrestricted support for GAIN’s research, teaching, and administrative activities. Higher tiers unlock project-level collaboration and governance opportunities.
Basic
- Acknowledgment on GAIN website
- Facilitated meetings with GAIN faculty
- Invitations to GAIN events, seminars & AI in GI conference
- Regular research & program updates
- Student & fellow recruiting opportunities
premium
- 1 Research Token ($20k value): additional funding to support GI research focus areas within the program
- All Basic benefits
- Faculty site visit
- Presentations shared with all members and the public
- Data and results disseminated between all members and the public
- Introductions to GI-adjacent Stanford startups
- Eligible for additional research tokens
Most Popular
founding member- 3 Research Tokens ($60k value): additional funding to support GI research focus areas within the program
- All Premium benefits
- Visiting scholar placement at Stanford GI / GAIN
- Meet Stanford GI startups & spinouts
- GI dataset cohorts, made available to members and the public
- Invitation to participate in GAIN IAP Advisory Board meetings
- Opportunity for members to support the GAIN AI in GI Annual Conference
- Additional opportunity to support recurring GAIN AI in GI Grand Rounds
* Additional Token(s) can be added by Premium or Founding members to support additional Focus Area(s) or FMA(s). Additions are $20,000 per token.
Who Should Join
Tailored Value for Three Categories of Industry Memberships
Device & Endoscopy Vendors
→ Clinical validation of AI-assisted endoscopy tools (polyp detection, Barrett’s, ESD)
→ Access to GI procedure video datasets and annotated clinical records
→ IRB-supported human factors and usability studies
→ FDA regulatory evidence generation in a real-world clinical setting
→ Co-authorship on landmark validation publications
AI & Health Technology Companies
→ Algorithm training and evaluation on curated GI clinical datasets
→ Prospective clinical pilot programs within Stanford GI clinics
→ Access to secure Stanford AI compute infrastructure
→ Co-development of responsible AI frameworks for GI applications
→ Licensing and commercialization pathways via Stanford OTL
Life Sciences & Pharma Companies
→ AI-augmented clinical trial design for GI indications (IBD, CRC, NASH/MASH)
→ Patient cohort identification and enrichment via real-world GI data
→ Biomarker discovery and validation using multi-omic GI datasets
→ Drug response prediction modeling for GI therapeutics
→ Sponsored research in GI pharmacogenomics and precision medicine
Program Policies
Transparency, Open Science & Stanford Guidelines
All GAIN Industry Affiliate Program memberships operate under Stanford University’s Policies for Industry Affiliates Programs. Key principles include:
Open-source software: GAIN uses and develops open-source software. It is the intention of the GAIN IAP that any software developed through the program will be released under an open-source model.
Shared research results: All information, data, and results arising from faculty site visits and Research Token projects will be shared with all program members and the general public.
Additional funding: Members may provide additional funding above their membership tier to support a particular research area or named faculty member on GAIN’s website. The GAIN Director will determine how additional funding is deployed within the program’s research goals.
Commitment: A three-year membership commitment is expected. Annual membership fees are due at the start of each program year.
Visiting Scholars: Information on the Stanford University visiting scholar program is available through the Stanford VPGE office.
Ready to Work with Stanford GAIN?
Member applications are accepted year-round. Contact the GAIN team to begin a conversation about how your organization can engage with Stanford’s GI AI ecosystem.