FOR UNIVERSITIES

Empower your studentswith the tools to succeed.

Vitae is a student-built platform helping university students discover and track early-career opportunities in life sciences, starting at the University of Warwick and expanding across the UK.

OUR STORY

Built by Warwick students who navigated this broken system themselves.

Annah-Elizabeth Ejiwunmi (Biochemistry) and Sem Kohyrelon (Physics) are final-year students at the University of Warwick. They found themselves in competitive internships almost by accident, and were immediately struck by how much success depended on networks and prior exposure rather than ability.

Coming from the West Midlands, the concentration of early-career success around a small group of Russell Group institutions felt impossible to ignore. Opportunities in life sciences were not being shared equally, they were passed around through personal networks that most students simply did not have access to.

Vitae was built to change that. Not as a job board, but as a decision-making tool, a centralised platform that gives every student the same quality of information, regardless of their background or institution.

“Vitae is about making sure doors remain open for everyone, especially in life sciences where it is all nepotism. The ultimate goal is to get universities using our tool embedded within their system.”

Annah-Elizabeth Ejiwunmi

Co-founder & CEO, Vitae

University of WarwickLord Rootes FundMLSFF 2025 & 2026
PARTNERSHIP BENEFITS

A collaborative effort to improve student employability.

Student engagement data

Understand which sectors your students are targeting, where they are applying, and where they are getting stuck, with anonymised, aggregated insights your careers service can actually act on.

Curated employer network

Your students get access to the life sciences and R&D opportunities sourced and verified by Vitae, not scraped, not stale. Every listing is active and relevant.

Branded student portal

In future phases, university partners will have a co-branded portal, so students experience Vitae as an extension of their institution's careers support, not a third-party tool.

WHY WE STAND FOR

The principles behind every decision we make

Access over advantage

The information that determines early-career outcomes should depend on what you are pursuing and who you are, not which postcode you grew up in or which parents know. Vitae exists to close that gap.

Built for life sciences specifically

Generic graduate platforms treat life sciences as an afterthought. Vitae is designed around how biochemistry, pharmacology, and biologists actually navigate their careers, in placements, dissertation schemes, and all.

Students first, always

Every product decision and feature starts with one question: does this make it easier for a student, particularly one without existing networks, to get the opportunity they deserve?

HEAR FROM YOUR STUDENTS

From delegates of the Minoritised Life Scientist Future Forum

Really enjoyed the app. It is really easy to use and I think it should be something available for everyone to use.

MD
MLSFF Delegate

I Iike the direction as well as the vision and I think it will be really useful for a lot of students.

MD
MLSFF Delegate

It was very easy to use. If able to use any app, you would be able to use this one too.

MD
MLSFF Delegate

Interface looks cool. App is fantastic.

MD
MLSFF Delegate

Really intuitive and easy to use.

MD
MLSFF Delegate

UWE (University of West England) needs this.

MD
MLSFF Delegate

How It Works

Three steps from interest to pilot.

01

Request a pilot

Click the button below. We'll schedule a 30-minute call with the team to understand your cohort size, sectors of interest, and what success looks like for your careers team.

02

Onboard your students

We provide a simple onboarding link your students can use to create their Vitae account. No SSO or IT integration is required at this stage, as it is designed for zero friction.

03

Review and grow

After 4-6 weeks, we share a pilot report with engagement data and student feedback. From there, we agree on how to formalise the partnership.

REQUEST A PILOT

Let's talk about your students.

Fill in the form and we'll be in touch within 48 hours to arrange a 30-minute call.

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