Prof. Christian Schafmeister has been funded by the Department of Defense’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DOD/DTRA) for the past eighteen years to develop an advanced technology to develop “programmable matter” aka Spiroligomer technology or “Molecular Lego”. The goal is to create large, complex, and programmable molecules that have the remarkable molecular recognition and catalytic capabilities of biological proteins but that are more robust and are easier to design than delicate proteins. In 2018 his group demonstrated he could scale up the quantities and scale out the numbers of Spiroligomer molecules that could be synthesized in a short time by several orders of magnitude. In 2019 the DOD asked Christian to start a company to commercialize the technology to develop a rapid response technology to generate diagnostic tests for emerging biological threats to protect the world from future pandemics. That company is “ThirdLaw Molecular” (https://thirdlawtx.com) and since its inception has created millions of Spiroligomer molecules and screened them against dangerous viruses and bacteria to hone the technology against real-world problems. In the last year, ThirdLaw Molecular has focused on developing the technology as a rapid response technology to create therapeutics for commercial disease targets and for the DOD to develop therapeutics for emerging biological threats. They have developed a library of 4.5 billion Spiroligomer molecules that will be able to screen hundreds of targets. They are also developing and training AI software to design and improve Spiroligomer molecules that are identified by screening libraries to create the future of therapeutics.

Developing synthetic therapeutic catalysts to correct diseases of aging.

To be announced

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