Some news: excited to share that I'm building Ditto Bio with Adair and Emily Weiss as part of the Y Combinator W26 batch! We're discovering drugs for autoimmune disease by harnessing parasite biology. Shout out Ankit Gupta for betting on us. 🔗 below:

Inaugural post! (after a long hiatus) Last May I quit my job to build Ditto Bio with Dennis Sun and Emily Weiss ! We turn parasite molecules into drugs for autoimmune disease, and are part of the Y Combinator W26 batch. Thanks for betting on us Ankit Gupta

Last year, I cofounded Ditto Bio with two exceptional scientists and friends Adair Dennis Sun. We turn parasite molecules into drugs for autoimmune disease 💊🪱 Excited to announce we are now backed by Y Combinator! Huge thanks to Ankit Gupta for betting on us 🙏 🔗below

Hello world!

POV: You convince your friends to quit their jobs and turn parasite proteins into drugs 💊 Thanks Y Combinator for betting on our team! 🪱🦠👾

🚀 Ditto Bio launched! Evolutionary Therapies for Autoimmune Disease “Ditto Bio discovers new drugs by harnessing parasite biology.” 🌐 fondo.ai/3ZrLsNN Congrats Adair Dennis Sun Emily Weiss!!

Ditto Bio launches, Evolutionary Therapies for Autoimmune Disease | FounderJournal fondo.ai/45YMogm

really excited about this team using viral/parasite biology to design new autoimmune drugs and develop immunogenicity models

One of the coolest things about Y Combinator is our exposure to leaders in frontier software + technology. Tonight we learned from Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code about building products that capture latent demand, how to best utilize agents, the future of software engineering.

So fun to see Arcadia Science alumni jumping to do something bold of their own 🙌 Don’t sleep on this crew

Amazing team, amazing science! Can’t wait to see what they discover! Congrats Adair, Emily Weiss and Dennis Sun on the launch of Ditto Bio (YC W26)!!! 🦠🧫🧬🔬

I met Dylan Field aka the Figma CEO at a Y Combinator event. Yes I told him all about ticks🩸

We found a parasite molecule that binds a major autoimmune target in the single-digit nM range. Even crazier, it ALSO hits another, completely unrelated immune regulator! It's a natural bispecific 🤩 Massive thanks to Adaptyv Bio for testing out our weird proteins. Let’s go !!

Every night before bed, I put on a plastic sock. It's part of treating my eczema, a condition I've managed for the last 6 years. It’s also one of the deeply personal reasons why I'm building Ditto Bio. 🧵 1/n

The best immunologists on Earth don't have PhDs. They're parasites. Today's spotlight 🧵(and big inspo for Ditto Bio ): Ticks! And if you like this, stay tuned because we will be sharing cool parasite facts each week #TickTalk 🕷️