digital therapeutics

“You think about, like, Genentech in the early days of biologics. In the early days there, people may have said, you know, a protein can't be a drug. But now that's something that's well recognized. I think some people might say, software can't be a drug. But s…”

“So the area of digital therapeutics lies in the fact that for many areas, such as type two diabetes, anxiety, depression, PTSD, I think our go-to for cures for this is a pill, but actually these are behavioral problems, and it's much more natural to have a beh…”

“But for a digital therapeutic like this, you can iterate week after week doing A-B testing, which in the medical world is really a randomized clinical trial that you get to run every week. You make it better and better and better and engineer it and improve it…”

“And I believe actually Modis had done this, and in this case, one can show actually that, that digital therapeutic is not just comparable to the drug, but in, and generally can exceed the capabilities of the drug.”

“And instead on the digital therapeutic side, you can be running the equivalent RCTs of these randomized clinical trials all the time with super huge N. But that of course then puts the onus on, on, on those having digital therapeutics to make the case.”

“And you have an interesting barrier to entry that is far superior than something like patents.”

“There's a reason why digital therapeutics has a right to the term therapeutic, and in my mind it's because one can assess its efficacy in exactly the same way you would a drug.”

“In the eighties with the origin of biotech and protein biologics, we already went through, oh, you know, I know what a drug is. A drug's a small molecule. This protein thing, that's weird. I mean, the protein thing, that'll never be a drug. And you can list al…”

“You know, when we think about this space, there are some things that I really imagine digital therapeutics making a huge impact in. Anything that's behavioral in nature. That when you talk about PTSD depression, anxiety, sleeping issues, and especially somethi…”