MedImmune’s Alzheimer’s Antibody Partnership With Axerion Showcases Virtual Neuroscience R&D Operation
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
The two companies will work together to optimize and develop preclinical antibodies targeted at blocking amyloid-beta oligomer binding to cellular prion protein.
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Axerion Therapeutics Inc.
Axerion Therapeutics Inc.'s technology aims to block the binding of Amyloid beta to the prion protein PrP-C, a mechanism its scientists say is the toxic trigger behind neuronal death in Alzheimer's disease. Based at Yale University in New Haven, the team found that mice with AB plaques but no PrP-C showed no cognitive impairment.