Revolutionary therapeutic treatment for stopping progression of Parkinson's disease

Acronym

ReTreatPD

Description of the granted funding

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a common neurodegenerative disorder, affecting over 10 million people worldwide, whereof 1.2 million in the EU. This chronic disabling disease affects the central nervous system, causing severe motor and non-motor symptoms. The high disease burden for patients and their family also comes with a big price tag for society, which is expected to increase dramatically with an ageing population. In EU the annual cost is 14 B€ currently. The causes of PD are unknown and there is a broad spectrum of pathologies that ultimately lead to the loss of dopamine producing neurons in the brain. The current dopamine substitution treatments alleviate some of the symptoms, however, there is no cure for PD nor any disease-modifying therapies. Herantis has developed a new pharmaceutical HER-096 with the ability to affect PD pathology and potential to revolutionise the treatment of PD, thus alleviating the huge burden it now causes patients and healthcare.
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Starting year

2023

End year

2025

Granted funding

HERANTIS PHARMA OYJ
Coordinator

Amount granted

2 500 000 €

Funder

European Union

Funding instrument

HORIZON EIC Accelerator Blended Finance

Framework programme

Horizon Europe (HORIZON)

Call

Programme part
The European Innovation Council (EIC) (11739)
Topic
EIC Accelerator Open (HORIZON-EIC-2022-ACCELERATOROPEN-01)
Call ID
HORIZON-EIC-2022-ACCELERATOR-01

Other information

Funding decision number

190132320

Identified topics

brain, neuroscience