Michael Wyzga

Yumanity Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical stage biopharmaceuticals company. It is accelerating the revolution in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases through its transformative scientific foundation and drug discovery platform. Its platform is based on technology, which enables the rapid screening for novel disease targets and disease modifying drugs that can overcome toxicity in disease-causing gene networks, which usually results from an aberrant accumulation of misfolded proteins in the brain. The company was founded by Susan Lindquist and Tony Coles in December 2014 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

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