Unpacking Lysosomal Storage: New Insights Drive Parkinson’s Drug Development
This article was originally published in Start Up
Executive Summary
Investors and dealmakers are using recent discoveries about convergences between Gaucher’s disease and Parkinson’s in the lysosome to generate new therapeutic programs. Start-up Lysosomal Therapeutics thinks that the rare disorder can serve as a model system for developing new drugs to increase lysosomal function as a way to treat Parkinson’s disease and possibly other neurodegenerative disorders.