Neuro-degenerative diseases are like using Ancestry.com, the further you go back the complexity is geometric. Each stage causes the next successive stage so you could say each stage is causative of the next stage. Ultimately these diseases may be deeply understood as to what causes the first stage of degeneration but there may be simple answers in some cases like old age, yet more complex answers in others like genetic disposition and/or other related triggers. I suspect we are still decades away from connecting all the dots, and even when we do, the approach to managing the disease may not be to address the first stage but to address a stage which we can affect more efficiently.
This is a complex space with so much work to do, with advances coming mostly through the set of small companies with good researchers who continue to progress. The ANVS approach is another fascinating one in a space desperately in need of solid progress toward effective treatment, even if not yet addressing the initial root cause stage.
Jan readout will determine if this approach is progress or not, I am bullish as I am with other small companies advancing this field, like all people I have seen people affected by these terrible diseases. My observation is this company has a well done body of research behind its approach though as with all small companies the depth is limited, especially the clinical data, with only the 54 patient PD data providing data strength. But all is aligned from compound design to clinical data so hopefully real progress will be made.
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