Cody Tranbarger

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Anthropic buys one-person biotech Mithril Medicine and takes its drug programs in-house

Employed by Anthropic, continuing the Mithril programs

Cody Tranbarger was the only full-time employee at Mithril Medicine. With eight part-time consultants and 11 outside laboratories, he used Anthropic's Claude to design bispecific antibodies for two rare muscular dystrophies and reached mouse proof of principle in under 18 months.

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Notable Quotes

"Mithril was founded to develop bispecific antibodies for patients with LAMA2-CMD and other ECM-related genetic diseases."

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"What began as an exercise in staying lean evolved into the thesis for an entirely new operating model, which we now call Pipeline-in-a-Person."

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