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Mindstate Design Labs

Programmable biology company for psychoactive effect design

Mindstate Design Labs is building the closed-loop science & engineering stack for rational psychoactive effect design. Our molecular-experience interface links molecular biology to the human psychopharmacodynamic profile to convert informal constructs like clarity, presence, or motivation into high-dimensional design targets. Our clinical program is a sequence of human demonstrations that psychoactive effects can be decomposed, recombined, and synthesized. The first controlled study decomposed hallucinations from the broader hallucinogen profile; the next is designed to selectively upregulate aesthetic salience to treat anhedonia in major depressive disorder. We’re progressively digitizing the molecular interface through which biology shapes what intelligence wants.
Active Founders
Dillan DiNardo
Dillan DiNardo
Founder/CEO
Ex-VC, F500 M&A. Invested across frontier biology, software, and hardware; founded platforms in programmable genes, proteins, cells, and biological systems (AAV capsids, multispecific antibodies, TCRs, tumor microenvironment, etc.).
Tom Ray
Tom Ray
Founder
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/
Mindstate Design Labs
Founded:2021
Batch:Summer 2021
Team Size:7
Status:
Active
Location:San Francisco
Primary Partner:Jared Friedman