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CHANGING THE FUTURE OF THE DRUG TESTING INDUSTRY

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CHANGING THE FUTURE OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL TRIAL INDUSTRY...

Replacing cell diffusion with machine learning algorithms for more accurate and personalized drug testing

The Drug Testing Industry is Being Misused

PROBLEM

Recent studies suggest that the diffusion of drugs through the phospholipid bilayer is negligible, yet that is still how drugs are tested because it is a cheap way to make an easy buck at the cost of reliability.

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Our Mission Statement:

To see how emerging machine learning technology can change the drug testing industry by evaluating drugs on how they interact with the proteins of the phospholipid bilayer rather than considering circumstantial diffusion through the bilayer.

Our Solution

A Support Vector Machine (SVM)  algorithm that can predict an individual's reaction to a drug based on their genes, effectively eliminating the need for the formal drug testing process.

Drug testing data as analyzed by our SVM

How It Works

The proteins that are actually responsible for drug transport, instead of what we thought was diffusion, can be detected using a sequence of an individual's genome to determine exactly how their cells will react to said drug. By deducing the makeup of the proteome in the cell membrane, we can know how much of the drug will be transported into the cell

Our Revolutionary 
Machine Learning Approach

Developed in Julia and designed for a future with a larger computing capacity, our SVM is up and running and can be used now on a set of Iris flowers. The accelerating research on the proteome will be used to make a protein and gene dataframe for the SVM in the future.

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The Impact

Idea So Far...

25+

Uses

5

95.8%

Accuracy So Far

1

0

Need for human or animal testing

Solution

The SVM Machine

95.8% accuracy

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Using Julia for dynamic and just-in time-coding and vector scaling

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Test out our SVM to see our solution up close.

GET TO KNOW US

Validation

From the creator of the programming language Julia to the lead researcher of phospholipid bilayer mechanics at the University of Manchester, Defuse Labs have met with, and received extensive validation about the concept from the experts in their respective fields.

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Dr. Douglas Kell

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Khali Alfar

IMOGEN CARS

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IDI SOFTWARE

Jeff Bezanson

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Tonya Bongolan

TRI-NEX

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Jacob Appleton

Co-Founder

Toronto, Ontario

Our Team

Our team is committed to making a difference. 

We believe that drug testing can do so much better than it is now and are looking to fabricate a future where big pharma has no excuse but to strive for success. Drug testing has been profiting for too long off of people's suffering. It's time that we faced the scientific reality of the industry's problems and took them head on with the best that our emerging technology can offer.

- Defuse Labs

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