Rodin Therapeutics Inc.
Epigenetic agents for treating cognitive disorders
This article was originally published in Start Up
Executive Summary
Epigenetics continues to be a hot experimental field, but few drugs for modifying gene transcription to control cell-cycle progression have been tried out for central nervous system disorders despite scientific evidence linking aberrant epigenetic processes to several neurodegenerative conditions. Rodin Therapeutics Inc. is stepping in by bringing together international expertise in structural biology with CNS drug development leadership to discover and develop epigenetic agents for Alzheimer’s disease and other CNS disorders.
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