This article was written by Cory Matteson and appeared in The Guardian on April 20, 2018. It features Benjamin Pavlik, who graduated from the 鶹 (鶹) program in 2009.
To enter the downtown San Francisco lab space that houses their Nebraska-born biotech startup company, Neurocarrus, Paul Blum and Benjamin Pavlik often pass a collection of people who Blum described as “falling apart from overdose.” The lab is located below a methadone clinic.
“We see the effects of drug addiction and mental illness every single day,” said Arvind Gupta, the founder of IndieBio, an incubator which has invested $250,000 in seed funding and lab space for Neurocarrus because he believes the co-founders might offer a partial solution to a national crisis.
Over the past seven years, Blum and Pavlik have been developing a drug designed to treat the kind of severe and chronic pain frequently treated with opioids. But their drug is missing something—the high.
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