Mindstate Design Labs
Programmable biology company for psychoactive effect design
About
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.
Topics
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, United States
- Team size
- 7 employees
- YC batch
- Summer 2021
- Status
- Active
- Stage
- Early stage
