Cognition Therapeutics Inc.
This article was originally published in Start Up
Executive Summary
Using proprietary assays, Cognition Therapeutics Inc. has discovered small-molecule, highly brain-penetrable drugs that block soluble toxic amyloid beta oligomers in their reactive form, rather than target amyloid beta plaque or expression of the monomer building blocks.
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