OCTANT

Most drug programs focus on binding molecules to a purified "target" protein, hoping that binding will drive a desired downstream function. Octant engineers biology and chemistry at massive scales to modulate the function itself, targeting complex cellular mechanisms that drive disease. We've focused these efforts internally on correcting diseases of protein misfolding and mistrafficking... We build custom sensors in human cells to disentangle and model the cellular mechanisms driving disease, for example, how a drug candidate interacting with a misfolded protein is affecting cellular function... We are a group of technologists and builders charting new approaches to drug discovery. We combine new technologies to find simple and elegant solutions to complex problems. Scientists, engineers and operators - we are all working together to build a new type of company.