Pharmaxon SA
This article was originally published in Start Up
Executive Summary
Pharmaxon aims to control cell mobility to fight disorders of the central nervous system and cancer. For glioblastoma, it has developed a neural cell mobility inhibitor that blocks cell migration in vitro and limits glioblastoma proliferation in animal models.
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