our purpose

Empowering people with OCD to live beyond the limits of their disease.

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is an insidious disease.

It creates a fog of uncertainty that disrupts daily routines. It causes anxiety, depression, loneliness, and despair. It destroys the quality of life, and can undermine the will to live.

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It affects up to 3 million adults and 500,000 children in the U.S. — yet many cases go unreported + untreated.

Feelings of shame and stigma keep it hidden from loved ones. It is often misdiagnosed, and presents with comorbidities, like anxiety or depression. It takes 11 years, on average, to receive treatment after meeting initial diagnostic criteria.

And while there are effective treatments for some, they don’t work for everyone.

Every patient is different—there  is no one-size-fits-all solution. ~1/3 of patients are treatment-resistant—their symptoms withstand existing therapies. Primary treatments from 30 years ago remain largely unchanged today.

our vision

We’re taking a radical new approach to funding OCD research and breakthroughs.

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Strategy

Our strategy is designed with the intention to deliver a “functional” cure for OCD in our lifetime. To do that, we’re pursuing multiple projects across multiple disciplines simultaneously: Genetics, Neuroscience, and Therapeutics. We’re also building key infrastructure to facilitate real-time sharing of data and insights, and funding “moon shot” projects beyond our core focus.

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Scientists

Our current team of core investigators includes leading scientists and physicians in the areas of genetics, neuroscience, psychiatry, and therapeutics. They have achieved breakthroughs in the fields of depression, autism, neuromodulation, and laboratory methods. They are leaders in their respective fields and their life’s work is essential to our strategy.

Meet our Scientists

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Seed Grants

While our strategy and expertise spans the gamut of OCD research and discovery, from molecules to circuits to therapies, we also know that breakthroughs can happen in unexpected, unrelated ways. In order to accelerate our path to a “functional” cure, we’re increasing our exposure to ideas and discoveries outside our core focus by funding select seed grants to labs and individuals.

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