Jake Adler
Founder & CEO, Pilgrim. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
founderscientistengineerexecutive@jakeradler ↗pilgrimlabs.com ↗
Jake Adler is a Thiel Fellow and the founder and CEO of Pilgrim, a defense-oriented biotechnology startup developing battlefield medical technologies. He drew widespread attention after demonstrating the effectiveness of his company's hemostatic dressing, Kingsfoil, ahead of raising a funding round backed by Thiel Capital.
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Everything Jake Adler said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Adler: Academia does a horrible job translating military medicine to the battlefield
“Sort of the chasm we're trying to cross here is that if you look at the state of things today, you know, academia rules, military medicine, and they do a Horrible, like totally shitty job of taking technology from the bench top to the battlefield.”
Adler: Partnering with DoD enables faster clearance than FDA breakthrough pathways
“And notably, like big companies right now with big startups like Neuralink and Synchron, like these big brain computer interface companies, you know, which have breakthrough designation, which was, you know, prized as like the fastest, most expedited pathway i…”
Adler: US Has No Bioweapon Defense and Is Vulnerable
“The U S has a somewhat of a grandstanding policy around this, which is that we will not build bioweapons and the best offense is really stronger defense. The problem is that we have no defense. You know, so, so we're kind of in this really precarious position …”
Adler: Most US Adversaries Are Building Biological Weapons
“The reality is that, you know, most of our foreign adversaries are building out these laboratories. They're building out these weapons.”
Adler: Dozens of BCI Startups Bypass FDA Using General Wellness Loophole
“A lot of the companies in the space are building brain computer interfaces and trying to circumvent the food and drug administration by trying to fall into this general wellness category. I've seen like dozens of companies do this.”
Jake Adler Cut Holes in His Legs to Demo Wound-Healing Tech
“So on limited time, I had to cut holes in my legs on camera to demonstrate the rapid healing abilities of one of our composites.”
Adler: Military Medicine Has Not Changed Much Since Vietnam
“Military medicine hasn't really changed much since Vietnam.”
Adler: Military Seeks Neuromodulation To Compress Five Hours Sleep Into Three
“And this has been a really big point of interest for the military is can we build neuromodulation or brain stimulation devices that can control sleep architecture and make it so when war fighters sleep three hours, they really feel like they're sleeping five h…”
Adler: Future Military Deployments Won't Medevac Troops for Up to Two Weeks
“Military is heading towards like the military doctrine is heading towards this environment where, you know, troops are going to be deployed in combat for an extended period of time and military medics, we won't even be able to retract them for maybe upwards of…”
Adler: Military Is Trying to Move Away From Benzodiazepines
“Obviously your benzodiazepine class is, is pretty big as well although the military is trying to move away from those.”
Adler Explored a Brain-Computer Interface That Shocks Users to Sleep
“One of the early technologies we were exploring was a device called NewSleep which was a closed loop brain computer interface that would effectively shock you to sleep.”
Adler: DoD Contracts De-Risk Biotech Startups Before Civilian Market Launch
“Really in many ways, I see the that DOD and our work with federal partners as a launch pad, right? We kind of get the to offload of all a lot of this initial experimental and financial risk kind of deployed into this first customer market and, and be able to e…”
Adler: QuikClot cleared regulatory approval in nine months without human trials
“So quick clot, which is an example you brought up, got cleared in nine months with no human trials, right?”
Adler: COVID-19 Cost US $16T and Caused Pacific Fleet Gap
“You look at COVID-nineteen spread across the globe in nine months. Killed like 1.2 million Americans and wiped out 16 trillion in our GDP. It also took, took off like a, for 10 weeks, we had an operational gap in the Pacific due to the USS Theodore Roosevelt.”
Adler: China Leads the US in Neural Interface Patents
“China is beating out the US in patents around neural interfaces. They've been doing that, I think, for a few years now. So they've really taken the lead.”
Adler: Biotech Startup Raised $3.25M Led by Peter Thiel, Cantos, and Refactor
“We just announced a three and a quarter million dollar round led by Peter Thiel, Cantos, and Refactor Capital to transform really the battlefield with advanced biotechnology.”
Adler: Early QuikClot Formulations Caused Severe Burns on Warfighters
“The challenge with Quick Claw, at least its initial formulation, was that it used to burn warfighters. So it actually would cause like second or third degree burns. So it would effectively stop the hemorrhage, but it would also burn them in the process of doin…”
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