Leash Bio

United States - Salt Lake City, UT

• 09/04/2024
• Seed
• $9,300,000

Every single machine learning (ML)-driven breakthrough, from language translation to Go championships, was immediately preceded not by an algorithmic innovation but by a massive, well-controlled, purpose-built dataset. An ML-driven breakthrough in medicinal chemistry is going to require a similar dataset, but such high-quality, well-structured experimental data doesn’t exist yet. We're building that data set by making physical measurements of lots of targets (with automated in-house protein production) screened against lots of compounds (with DNA-encoded chemical libraries). We're also building the ML models, that will eventually be generalizable across any protein and novel medicines using insights from our models.

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Ian Quigley, PhDCo Founder

United States - Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area

I build biological, chemical, and data systems to address major biomedical problems.

My team and I made 12.7 billion queryable measurements in my basement in 2023.

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/iquigley/