Yumanity Merges With Proteostasis To Accelerate Parkinson’s Therapy
Executive Summary
Yumanity goes public by merging with Proteostasis; it is accelerating its Parkinson’s program because of mouse model data showing disease-modifying potential. Proteostasis will out-license its CF assets.
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