GeNeuro SA
This article was originally published in Start Up
Executive Summary
Swiss start-up GeNeuro SA aims at an MS cure. The company licensed technology from French infectious-disease specialist bioMérieux SA, whose studies showed the presence of the MS-associated retrovirus (a member of the HERV-W family) may be a major triggering and aggravating factor in MS. GeNeuro's novel approach primarily focuses on the development of therapeutic monoclonal antibodies, which will target and neutralize the pathogenic MSRV/HERV-W proteins and thereby, in theory, prevent the initiation of the inflammatory and autoimmune cascades induced by these proteins in MS.