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Technology

Filament Health has developed a groundbreaking platform with the first-ever natural psychedelic drug candidates.

Until now, the healing potential of natural psychedelic drugs has remained largely untapped - hindered by decades of prohibition and the absence of specialized botanical extraction expertise.

At Filament Health, we have developed proprietary technology to create stable, standardized formulations from any psychedelic species. These innovations have yielded patented methods for producing the world’s first pharmaceutical-grade, botanical psychedelic drug candidates, now advancing through clinical trials worldwide.

Psilocybin mushrooms growing in the Filament Lab

Psychedelic Botanical Drug Processing Steps:

Step 1: Propagation
Grow botanical psychedelics
Trade Secrets
Step 2: extraction
Remove target compounds from biomass
Patent Families 1, 7, & 8
13 Filed 7 Granted
Step 3: Purification
Remove non-primary/secondary metabolites
Patent Families 2 & 6
4 Filed
Step 4: Standardization & Stabilization
Precise and stable formulation
Patent Families 3 & 4
4 Filed
Step 5: human delivery
Compositions of matter for different deliverable forms
Patent Family 5
4 Filed
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Filament’s IP is a combination of trade secrets and patented technologies which provide robust protection for our drug candidates, and leverage the known safety profiles of classical psychedelic substances. We secure patent protection for technologies used to extract, purify, stabilize, and standardize our products, as well as for the finished formulations of the drugs we manufacture.

dried ayahuasca in pestle and mortar

Natural drug development provides a distinct intellectual property advantage.

Unlike synthetic drugs, botanical drugs are complex mixtures derived from natural sources and they are difficult to replicate without precise knowledge of their manufacturing processes. This inherent complexity provides robust protection that extends beyond our issued patents.

While there are countless ways to create synthetic compounds, the methods for extracting, purifying, and standardizing naturally occurring psychedelic compounds are finite, making them much easier to defend through IP.

The facility

Filament's research and development facility is one of the first in the world to hold a Health Canada Dealer’s License and be GMP-compliant. These capabilities are required to manufacture and distribute drugs for human consumption in clinical trials or via authorized compassionate use.

Filament Health office building

OUR industry-leading facility allows us to:

  • Propagate psychedelic plants and fungi
  • Conduct genetic research
  • Develop manufacturing technology
  • Generate intellectual property
  • Manufacture drug candidates for our own drug development as well as for distribution to drug developers, researchers, and other licensed parties
Image of psilocybin mushroom with an arrow pointing to the chemical structures psilocybin and psilocin
image of echinopsis peruviana and its chemical structure mescaline
Image of Acacia Simplex and its chemical structure DMT
Image of Anadenanthera Peregrina and its chemical structure Bufotenin

Filament’s research program includes all natural psychedelics: psilocybin, DMT, harmaline, mescaline, and more.

Learn more about Drug Discovery
Image of psilocybin mushroom with an arrow pointing to the chemical structures psilocybin and psilocin
image of echinopsis peruviana and its chemical structure mescaline
Image of Acacia Simplex and its chemical structure DMT
Image of Anadenanthera Peregrina and its chemical structure Bufotenin

Filament’s research program includes all natural psychedelics: psilocybin, DMT, harmaline, mescaline, and more.

Learn more about Drug Discovery