Meet the DM Drug Developers: ARTHEx biotech

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June 3rd, 2022
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Each month biotechnology, pharmaceutical and academic partners, large and small, working on treatments and a cure for myotonic dystrophy will sit down with our community to share their progress and answer your questions. Click here to learn more about ARTHEx biotech.

Dr. Beatriz Llamusi
Msc and PhD in Biochemistry, CEO of Arthex Biotech S.L

Dr.Llamusi focused her scientific career on studying the molecular basis of pathogenesis and potential treatments by generating animal models of human diseases. As a postdoc she moved her focus from neuro-regeneration in spinal cord, to rare diseases, specifically Myotonic Dystrophy disease (DM), working under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Artero, in the laboratory of Translational Genomics affiliated to the University of Valencia and the INCLIVA health research institute. She contributed more than 20 scientific articles in indexed journals, including original research and reviews on the state of the art in Myotonic Dystrophy. Her main research interest is to understand myotonic dystrophy neurodegeneration, heart dysfunction, and muscle atrophy, to investigate their molecular basis and to find drugs that suppress these phenotypes. Her motivation is the translation of her research to benefit society and, as such, she discovered five anti-DM1 compounds or repurposing drugs, which are protected by patents and licensed to biotech companies.

Currently, she founded the biotech company ARTHEX Biotech S.L, in September 2019, dedicated to the development of an antimiR-based drug against Myotonic dystrophy disease. The company raised seed funds from Invivo Capital and ADVENT France VCs and is actually working on the preclinical development of these molecules, planning to enter FIH on 2022.

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Add to Calendar 2022-06-03 00:00:00 2022-06-03 00:00:00 Meet the DM Drug Developers: ARTHEx biotech To know more about this Event, Just go to: https://www.myotonic.org/meet-dm-drug-developers-arthex-biotech-0 Location Myotonic Dystrophy Foundation info@myotonic.org America/Vancouver public