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Mindstate Design Labs

Summer 2021 · Active

Clinical-stage AI neuroengineering platform

Location: San Francisco, US

Founded: 2021

Team size: 7

About

We're making every therapeutically valuable emotion available on demand in pharmaceutical form. Our Osmanthus platform is an ensemble of AI models that synthesize the world’s largest datasets of psychoactive pharmacology and phenomenology, quantitatively pinpointing the combination of neurotransmitter receptor activity that underlies various emotional as well as cognitive and perceptual states. Our lead program MSD-001 is designed to be rapid-acting and produce heightened emotional and cognitive flexibility without hallucinations. MSD-001 is currently in human trials, and will be the base ingredient for multiple drug combination "emotions in a bottle" such as empathy, awe, clarity, or beauty.

Founders

  • Dillan DiNardoFounder/CEO

    Creating new classes of psychoactive therapeutics as Founder/CEO at Mindstate Design Labs. Former biotech VC.

  • Tom RayFounder

    BS in biology & chemistry Florida State University. MS & PhD in biology Harvard, tropical plant ecology. 1981 Society of Fellows U Michigan Ann Arbor. 1981-1998 faculty University Delaware, biology & computer science. 1993-2003 External Faculty of the Santa Fe Institute. 1993-1998 invited researcher ATR (Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute) Human Information Processing Research Labs in Japan. In 1998-present Professor of Biology & Computer Science OU. AAAS Fellow. http://tomray.me/