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PALO ALTO, Calif., April 12, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cantabio Pharmaceuticals Inc. (OTCQB:CTBO) announced today a new preclinical therapeutic program for Alzheimer’s Disease which it is pursuing through its drug discovery partnership with NovAliX. This program is aimed at the development of small molecule chaperones that stabilize the Abeta peptide, the aggregation of which is considered to be a key element in the onset and progression of Alzheimer’s disease.
This new program, which is the result of collaborative work between Cantabio and NovAliX, is based on the discovery of novel small molecules that interact with the Abeta peptide, which were identified using NovAliX’s high throughput chemical microarray based surface plasmon resonance (SPR-WORM) screen, a unique high throughput biophysics based binding assay platform.
Cantabio aims to develop a novel therapy for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease, which impacts an estimated 5.4 million Americans, including 200,000 individuals below the age of 65. Alzheimer’s is the 6th leading cause of death in the United States, with 700,000 seniors expected to die in 2016 with the disease. The annual number of new cases of Alzheimer's is projected to double by 2050, with a public cost of direct care currently at $236 billion. There is currently no disease modifying treatment available for this growing problem.
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