{"id":21693,"date":"2025-04-08T10:04:56","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T08:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fbg.ub.edu\/?p=21693"},"modified":"2025-04-08T10:04:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T08:04:56","slug":"the-spin-off-accure-therapeutics-receives-1-6-million-for-clinical-trials-of-an-innovative-parkinsons-drug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fbg.ub.edu\/en\/news\/the-spin-off-accure-therapeutics-receives-1-6-million-for-clinical-trials-of-an-innovative-parkinsons-drug\/","title":{"rendered":"The spin-off Accure Therapeutics receives $1.6 million for clinical trials of an innovative Parkinson&#8217;s drug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"3121\" data-end=\"3349\">The spin-off from the University of Barcelona (UB), <strong data-start=\"3173\" data-end=\"3196\">Accure Therapeutics<\/strong>, has received two grants totaling <strong data-start=\"3231\" data-end=\"3247\">$1.6 million<\/strong> to accelerate the clinical development of its drug <strong data-start=\"3299\" data-end=\"3309\">ACT-02<\/strong>, aimed at treating Parkinson\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"3351\" data-end=\"3550\">This is an innovative asset with disease-modifying potential that inhibits prolyl-endopeptidase (PREP), a protein previously underexplored for Parkinson\u2019s disease but showing promising potential.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"3552\" data-end=\"3753\">The <strong data-start=\"3556\" data-end=\"3566\">ACT-02<\/strong> program is in an advanced preclinical phase and is supported by positive efficacy data from in vivo Parkinson\u2019s models, as well as a set of toxicological and pharmacological safety data.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"3755\" data-end=\"4053\">The grants, awarded by <strong data-start=\"3778\" data-end=\"3811\">The Michael J. Fox Foundation<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"3816\" data-end=\"3850\">Fonds National de la Recherche<\/strong>, represent an important milestone for the UB spin-off, reinforcing the scientific strength of ACT-02, its associated R&amp;D plans, and its potential to address critical unmet medical needs for Parkinson\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"4055\" data-end=\"4263\">&lt;&lt; <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/ala.associates\/accure-therapeutics-recibe-16-millones-de-dlares-en-dos-subvenciones-para-llevar-a-ensayos-clnicos-un-innovador-frmaco-contra-el-parkinson?e=b2866d7c48\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\" data-start=\"4058\" data-end=\"4263\">More information<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The spin-off from the University of Barcelona (UB), Accure Therapeutics, has received two grants totaling $1.6 million to accelerate the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21684,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fbg.ub.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fbg.ub.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fbg.ub.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbg.ub.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbg.ub.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbg.ub.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21694,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbg.ub.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21693\/revisions\/21694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbg.ub.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fbg.ub.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbg.ub.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbg.ub.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}