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Arkuda Therapeutics

www.arkudatx.com

 
Arkuda Therapeutics is a biotechnology company applying insights into lysosomal biology to drive the development of medicines to change the trajectory of neurodegenerative disease. Arkuda`s lead program ARKD-104 aims to correct progranulin deficiency and lysosomal dysfunction in patients with GRN-related frontotemporal dementia (FTD-GRN), a genetically-defined subtype of frontotemporal dementia caused by an autosomal dominant mutation in the progranulin (GRN) gene. The company is further exploring the therapeutic potential of its molecules in other neurodegenerative diseases where genetic links to dysfunction in progranulin biology have been established, including Alzheimer`s Disease and Parkinson`s Disease. Arkuda is backed by leading investors including Atlas ...
  • Number of Employees: 25-100
  • Annual Revenue: $0-1 Million
  • www.arkudatx.com
  • 200 Arsenal Yards Boulevard Suite 220
    Watertown, MA USA 02472
  • Phone: 617.579.1306

Executives

Name Title Contact Details
Duane Burnett
 Chief Technology Officer Profile

Funding

Arkuda Therapeutics raised $44M on 11/07/2019

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