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Cohort 1 Case Studies

Episteme’s Zachary Miller Scaled to Hundreds of Neural Simulations. At Demo Day, Episteme researcher Zachary Miller reported running hundreds of neural simulation experiments a week, up from roughly 12. After finishing a refactor he had estimated at about a month in two days. Read case study Merge Labs’ AI Interviewer Caught Missing Controls in Brain–Computer Interface Experiments, Potentially Saving Months of R&D Merge Labs’ AI interviewer, codenamed Tenzing, led researchers to add controls and redesign a screen; Merge estimated that a single added control could spare about two months of one full-time scientist’s work. Read case study Marathon Fusion Develops AlphaFold for Nuclear Physics, then Publishes Two Preprints on Production Routes for Cancer-Therapy Isotopes Marathon Fusion’s Jason Parisi published two preprints during Reactorfield’s first cohort, modeling production routes for rare but powerful cancer-therapy isotopes actinium-225, lead-212 and terbium-149. Read case study Retro Biosciences’ AI Reviewer Saved Time and Flagged Issues Before Drugs Reach Humans Yuuki Hosokawa built an AI reviewer during Reactorfield’s Cohort 1 program that saved time and caught additional issues in Retro Biosciences’ drug-testing procedures before final approval. Read case study Radify Debugged Stalled Reactors, Identified New Materials, and Cleared Five Weeks of Data in 48 Hours Working with Claude during Reactorfield, Radify Metals CTO Dan Bullard found that his stalled reactions came from hydrogen plasma attacking the quartz reactor wall and identified calcium hexaluminate (CA6) as a candidate replacement, meeting their multifactorial reactor parameters. Read case study Kopra Bio Cut Protein Validation From Months to Two Weeks and Reported Binding Hits Kopra Bio reported in vitro binding hits at Reactorfield’s Demo Day from proteins selected out of thousands of computational candidates, with wet-lab validation taking two weeks instead of months. Read case study Xilio Scientist With No Coding Experience Cut a 25-Minute Analysis to 25 Seconds Xilio senior scientist Oleg Yerov showed his app, PlateFit Pro, finishing in 25 seconds an assay analysis that took 25 minutes by hand for just four molecules. Read case study Strand Therapeutics Used AI to Automate Five Hours of Weekly In Vivo CAR-T Research and Cut Answer Times to Minutes Strand automated a five-hour weekly curation task, and colleagues can now get source-backed answers on competing in vivo CAR-T programs in just minutes. Read case study Northwell’s Brian Kim Drafted a 12-Page NIH Grant in One Hour of Active Work Brian S. Kim of Northwell Health produced a 12-page NIH grant first draft with Claude in one hour of active work; his usual first draft took an estimated six to eight weeks. Read case study Vera Mucaj’s mRNA Explorer Led to Over $100,000 invested in Mayo Clinic Lung Transplantation Experiments Mayo Clinic researchers used Vera Mucaj’s EVLP mRNA Candidate Explorer to choose a non-obvious mRNA combination and ordered the mRNAs; she and the team have committed over $100,000 of experimental materials to validate the work in the lab. Read case study Foundation Industries Used AI to Cut Part Reviews for Drones, Robots and Jets From Hours to Minutes During Reactorfield, Foundation Industries built an AI reviewer for CAD files and cut a manufacturability check that takes an experienced machinist three to four hours to just minutes. Read case study Mass Magnetics Used AI to Cut Magnet Defect Tagging From Four Hours to 15 Minutes, Catching Flaws the Human Eye Would Miss Mass Magnetics’ machine-vision tool, built in Reactorfield’s first cohort, cut a tagging session from as much as four hours to a 15-minute review and caught defects hard to see by eye. Read case study Kathy Liu Used AI Agents to Design a Simulated Injectable Robotic Swarm for Gastroparesis in Three Weeks In three Reactorfield weeks, Kathy Liu built a library of swarm designs, a virtual laboratory and a simulated injectable electrode, each one week of work that Liu said would previously have taken more than a year. Read case study

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