[5][6] The same year, he founded Butterfly Sciences in Davis, California to develop a gene therapy to treat HIV AIDS using a combination of GHRH[7] and an intracellular vaccine.
[6][8] After founding Butterfly Sciences, Hanley continued publishing scholarly literature in multiple fields that examined economic topics such as banking,[9][10][11] cryptocurrency[12] and climate.
[12] Hanley could not raise money for his company Butterfly Sciences and decided to obtain proof of concept by testing gene therapy on himself.
[2] Hanley later co-authored a 2019 paper on Self-Experimentation, ethics and law with George Church, which bears out his position regarding the necessity for an IND.
[20][21] A researcher at George Church’s Harvard University laboratory observed the experiment and Hanley’s blood was then studied.