Joel Gever's Contact Details

Joel Gever's Company Details

CuraSen Therapeutics, Inc.

San Mateo, CA, US • 10 - 19 Employees
BioTech/Drugs

It's time to think again about therapies for neurodegenerative disease. At CuraSen, we are targeting neurodegeneration with novel science and treatments so patients can THINK, AGAIN.CuraSen Therapeutics, Inc. is a privately funded biopharmaceutical company pursuing development of novel treatments for neurodegenerative diseases, including Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease, as well as several orphan indications. Millions of patients and their families are burdened by these diseases, and the numbers continue to grow annually with the aging population.At CuraSen, we are rethinking the therapeutic approach to treatment of neurodegenerative diseases—and advancing a concept based on restoring a key functionality to a pathway lost early in the degenerating brain. This pathway emanates from the locus coeruleus (LC), site of the earliest pathology seen in these diseases – perhaps the ‘hypocenter' of neurodegeneration.We began clinical testing of our hypothesis in 2019 using established drugs from other therapeutic areas, which has informed our development program and helped advance our first new chemical entity, CST-2032, to the clinic in September 2020. CuraSen has assembled an impressive team, deeply experienced in the neuroscience, pharmacology and clinical development core to its approach, as well as top tier investor backing, including New Leaf Venture Partners, Longitude Capital, funds managed by Tekla Capital Management LLC, Alta Partners, Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JJDC, Inc. (JJDC), and Pappas Capital.