Parkure Ltd.
Finding disease-modifying drugs for Parkinson's disease
This article was originally published in Start Up
Executive Summary
Parkure Ltd., based in a small lab in Edinburgh, Scotland, will use its fruit fly assay to find new Parkinson’s disease treatments from old drugs, with an aim to slow or even reverse the course of this devastating CNS disorder.
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