Harnessing untapped diverse chemistry with AI-enabled drug discovery to develop breakthrough small molecule medicines for chronic disease.
About Montai
Montai is a different kind of drug company, purpose-built to make big leaps forward in the predictable discovery of great drugs for chronic diseases.
Montai is pioneering at the intersection of machine learning, biology, and diverse untapped chemistry to uncover Anthromolecule™ compounds — that are rich with potential solutions for hard-to-drug biology. Shaped by eons of human co-evolution through chronic consumption, Anthromolecules have topologically rich structures that enable precise and selective engagement of complex biological targets. Montai has curated and derivatized over 1B+ molecules from this vast, previously untapped chemical space, creating scalable access to drug-like compounds that offer privileged solutions to discover highly efficacious and selective orals for targets once the domain of only biologics.
Our Mission
Our understanding of human biology has grown exponentially, offering new insights into disease and ways to intervene. Yet many of today's innovative therapies remain out of reach or insufficient for most patients. What's more, finding new oral medicines has historically been largely a trial-and-error endeavor with many of the most important validated biological pathways considered undruggable with small molecules. Montai aims to change this.
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6 in 10
US adults living with chronic disease -
>50%
Most severe patients
are untreated -
<10%
Proportion of innovative medicines taken that are small molecules -
7%
Likelihood of approval for novel small molecules
The CONECTA Platform
Diverse, Untapped Bioactive Chemical Space at Unprecedented Scale
Montai is aggregating and curating the world's largest, fully-annotated collection of Anthromolecules — bioactive compounds humans have chronically consumed. This richly diverse chemical space offers molecular scaffolds that differ by more than 99% from those found in traditional drug-development libraries such as Enamine or DNA-encoded libraries. Embedded within this chemically diverse space are numerous validated mechanisms of action — such as covalent binders, allosteric inhibitors, molecular glues, macrocycles, and protein-protein interaction inhibitors — that are well suited for addressing complex biology.
Montai has developed proprietary AI and ML tools to generate and curate more than 1 billion synthetically accessible, drug-like analogs derived from Anthromolecules. We continue to expand our chemical space to open access for the first time to the broadest diversity of nature-encoded chemistry for modern drug discovery.
Precision Pathway Connections to Target Biology
CONECTA AI is powered by advanced multimodal foundation models trained on over a billion curated and proprietary data points, and 100 biological pathways across five therapeutic areas. This foundation enables efficient and systematic mapping of diverse chemical space to established biological drivers of chronic disease, and expands the landscape of tractable, orally available therapeutics.
CONECTA's proprietary AI system overcomes prior challenges such as polypharmacy and accessibility in exploiting diverse chemistry through target specific bioactivity modeling and mechanism-directed compound prioritization. CONECTA's multimodal in silico ranking system integrates predictions of bioactivity with more than 60 physiochemical and drug-like parameters (e.g., solubility, permeability, toxicity, manufacturability) to precisely identify the top on-mechanism candidates. This pathway-selective ranking across rich chemical diversity delivers the equivalent of 1,000+ years of experimental screening in under two days.
By enabling predictive, high-resolution prioritization at unprecedented scale, CONECTA empowers researchers and drug developers to uncover the most promising starting points for interrogating and modulating complex biology.
Integrated Decisioning
CONECTA enables unprecedented integrated decisioning across expert domains including — biologists, chemists, toxicologists, manufacturing, translational medicine, and drug developers. The integrated team defines a precise target candidate profile (TCP) and then collaborates with CONECTA's AI/ML experts to uncover the hidden potential in diverse chemistry. This approach allows efficient discovery and advancement of multiple uncorrelated hits, leads, and development candidates (DCs).
CONECTA's approach provides several key advantages:
- Unparalleled access to diverse chemotypes and mechanisms
- Highly efficient wet lab — focused on most promising chemistry, AI medchem assist
- Higher probability of success and clinical optionality — multiple DCs and optimal translational profiles for different indications
Our Platform Visualized
Montai has built the world's leading AI to decode the language of Anthromolecule chemistry to predictably unearth and optimize nature's bioactive solutions.
See how we do it.
The CONECTA® pipeline
Montai Pipeline
Montai has progressed promising solutions for 12 validated pathways for transcription factors and biologic replacements with broad application across inflammation and immunology diseases.
| Target | Lead TA | Discovery Disc. |
Lead Optimization Lead Op. |
IND Enabling IND Enable |
Phase 1
Phase 1 |
Mechanisms Mech. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NRF2 (MTAI-1025) |
Gastroenterology
Gastro- enterology |
FIH 2026
FIH 2026 |
Covalent | |||
| Transcription Factor |
Dermatology |
DC 2026
DC 2026 |
Allosteric, Covalent | |||
| Biologic Replacement |
Dermatology |
DC 2027
DC 2027 |
PPI | |||
| Transcription Factor |
Rheumatology | Allosteric | ||||
| Biologic Replacement |
Respiratory | PPI | ||||
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Transcription Factor
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Oncology | Molecular Glue |
We have prioritized five programs for later-stage development with our first program on track to enter the clinic in 2026 as well as a partnership with Pfizer in oncology. These programs highlight our unique ability to unlock powerful mechanisms from diverse, untapped chemistry - covalent binders, allosteric modifiers, protein-protein inhibitors, and molecular glues - to overcome historical challenges and solve hard-to-drug biology.
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1B+
Superior starting points for drug discovery -
12
I&I Pathways with precision matched diverse chemistry -
100+
Pathways and MOAs incorporated into CONECTA
We envision a world where, instead of regular and costly infusions, a convenient and safe pill for long-term use effectively treats a chronic disease, where solutions exist for diseases that today have none.
Featured News
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Montai Therapeutics Presents Preclinical Data on NRF2 Agonist in Ulcerative Colitis at ACAAI Annual Meeting
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Montai Therapeutics Appoints Hans Hull as Chief Operations Officer
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Montai Therapeutics Appoints Allison Bogosian, JD, as Chief People and Administrative Officer
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Spotlight: Montai Builds a Multimodal AI Platform for Drug Discovery Using NVIDIA NIM Microservices
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Montai Therapeutics Appoints Renowned Chemical Innovator Larry Hamann to Company's Board of Directors, Convenes Multidisciplinary Scientific Advisory Board to Inform Strategic Momentum
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How 3 Mass. companies are using AI to design drugs
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Breaking Boundaries in Chemical Combinatorics Machine Learning: Unveiling the ComboPath Model at NeurIPS 2023
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Montai Health Appoints Christian Antoni, M.D., Ph.D., as Company's First Chief Medical Officer
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Montai Health Adds Industry Leaders to its Board of Directors
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Flagship Pioneering Unveils Montai Health to Treat and Preempt Chronic Disease Afflicting Two Billion People Worldwide
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Partnerships
We welcome the opportunity to partner with experts across areas who share our passion for creating Anthromolecule™ medicines and want to collaborate to accelerate the development of safe, efficacious and accessible therapies across diseases.
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