Prexton Therapeutics
mGluR4 compounds for Parkinson’s disease
This article was originally published in Start Up
Executive Summary
Prexton Therapeutics aims to advance the standard of care for Parkinson’s disease by developing a therapeutic that strategically targets metabotropic glutamate receptor 4. It plans to use its lead compound as an add-on therapy to facilitate lower therapeutic doses of L-dopa in order to decrease adverse effects, while maintaining the expected therapeutic level of the treatment.