News | March 15, 2022

Blackhawks Mindbio Therapeutics Announces Investment In Health Research Platform Quantified Citizen, A Health Technology Company Disrupting And Decentralizing Clinical Research

Blackhawk Growth Corp. (the “Company” or “Blackhawk”) is pleased to report that MindBio Therapeutics (“MindBio”) has co-invested in Quantified Citizen’s (quantifiedcitizen.com) latest funding round with other notable investors around the world. The investment was funded from MindBio existing working capital.

Quantified Citizen is a leading mobile health research platform with over 52,000 users and over 17,000 participants in their global microdosing study, which was published in the prestigious science journal Nature Scientific Reports.

MindBio is in the final completion stages of a world first Phase 1 clinical trial microdosing LSD to patients at home. Co-founder of MindBio, Justin Hanka said “We are impressed with the extensive work that Quantified Citizen is doing in decentralized clinical trials and we are excited to invest and participate in their journey and to explore synergies in our respective microdosing clinical trials. Data is the key to developing safe and effective treatment strategies and understanding the nuances of the effects of psychedelic medicines on patient health”.

Quantified Citizen has created an innovative health technology platform that seeks to democratize scientific discovery through digitized health measures and a community of professional researchers and passionate citizen scientists. “We envision a world where doing scientifically valid health research is as fast and easy as creating a website, with the same global reach. Where scientific tinkering and self-examination are normalized, vastly accelerating the pace of discovery by unlocking unexamined data,” shares co-founder and CEO Eesmyal Santos-Brault.

MindBio is working towards creating a safe and effective microdosing regimen using psychedelics that can be prescribed by doctors to patients in the primary health care system with the aim of changing the course of mental health.

Source: Blackhawk Growth