Patient-Based Therapeutics
AcuraStem is a patient-based biotechnology company pioneering how treatments are developed for neurodegenerative diseases — including sporadic ALS and FTD — using our proprietary, best-in-class, disease-modeling platform, iNeuroRx®, the gold standard for discovering novel, effective and broadly-acting treatments.
Patient Focused
The main reason drugs fail in clinical trials is due to an over reliance on animal models, which leads to a poor understanding of the real human mechanisms driving disease. AcuraStem are leaders and inventors in the generation of individual patient models that accurately recapitulate neurodegenerative disease processes. This, what we call our patient-based approach, leads to more effective treatments, and treatments that can work broadly for patients, not limited to rare, genetically defined subtypes.
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Neurodegenerative Disease Areas
Latest News
AcuraStem announced the appointment of Marcel van der Brug, Ph.D., as Chief Scientific Officer. Dr. van der Brug is an accomplished neuroscientist with extensive expertise in neurodegenerative diseases and therapeutic development.
At the RNA Leaders USA Congress, held September 4-5, 2024, at the San Diego Convention Center, AcuraStem CEO Sam Alworth delivered a key presentation titled 'Accelerating the Development of More Effective Treatments for ALS & FTD Using the iNeuroRx® Technology Platform.'
AcuraStem, a patient-based biotechnology company advancing treatments for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), frontotemporal dementia (FTD), and other neurodegenerative diseases, announced today that it has successfully secured $4 million in grant funding from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) as part of CIRM's Therapeutic Translational Research Projects program, which accelerates the preclinical development of innovative therapies.