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Sheffield scientists have been awarded £1.2 million to design a new Parkinson’s drug – Sheffield Telegraph
Researchers from the University of Sheffield have been awarded over £1 million from Parkinson’s UK to develop a drug to slow down the progression of the degenerative…
Researchers from the universitys Institute of Translational Neuroscience (SITraN) will work with Parkinson UKs Virtual Biotech initiative to try and halt Parkinsons progression by developing a drug to protect dopamine-producing brain cells.
Some 145,000 people are living with Parkinson’s in the UK and there is a desperate need for new and better treatments.
The drug will aim to develop molecules that can boost the function of the brains energy-producing mitochondria to halt the degenerative disease…
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