Healx’s Post

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Well, this all goes back to 2013 when Tim was finishing his PhD in the chemistry department here and he decided he wanted to start a company, but he just knew he wanted to work in red disease as an invent new medicines. We have a lunch with Nick Cerone, who was a local person who had two children with a rare disease, a pretty awful rare disease. Nick is not a scientist, but he had figured there was a weed killer. That works by the very mechanism. That could treat and possibly cure his children's condition. He got along with developing that. Suddenly I could see how using the machine learning technology now, we could match drug mechanism and disease all in one step. There are three steps in the traditional drug discovery paradigm. Putting those three things together then became the foundation of Helix. One of the projects we worked on was NF 1 Facts, about 2 million people. We came up with a molecule that we now call Helix. 1502 it's now in mid stage clinical trials in the US for treating patients. That's the kind of breakthrough you can make. It's a first in class drug. 1st to work by that mechanism for that disease. That's where the breakthroughs come from. That's where the big commercial success comes from. That's what I've algorithms can do.