NRG Therapeutics Appoints Gilles Ouvry Ph.D. as Vice President of Chemistry to Advance its Mitochondrial Therapeutics for Neurodegenerative Disorders

Gilles Ouvry Ph.D, appointed to newly created position of VP of Chemistry, based in Stevenage, UK Joins from Evotec, UK and brings 20 years of international medicinal chemistry experience including at Galderma, AstraZeneca and SCYNEXIS Will be responsible for developing NRG’s pipeline of potential first-in-class brain-penetrant small molecule inhibitors of the mitochondrial permeability transition pore […]

NRG Therapeutics Announces £16 million Series A to Advance Mitochondrial Therapeutics for Parkinson’s and ALS

£16 million Series A led by Omega Funds, to advance disease-modifying oral medicines for debilitating chronic neurodegenerative disorders through IND-enabling studies Developing a pipeline of potential first-in-class brain-penetrant small molecule inhibitors of the mitochondrial permeability transition pore, which act through a novel mechanism of action, as treatments for Parkinson’s and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Professor […]

NRG Therapeutics Selects Domainex to be its Integrated Drug Discovery Partner for its Biomedical Catalyst Funded Parkinson’s Disease Project

NRG Therapeutics Ltd., an innovative neuroscience company targeting mitochondrial dysfunction, and Domainex Ltd., today announce a collaboration focused on developing novel small molecule disease-modifying medicines for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease, motor neurone disease (MND) and other debilitating chronic neurodegenerative disorders. Domainex, a leading integrated medicines research services partner, will provide fully integrated lead optimization […]

NRG Therapeutics Announces £2.68M Innovate UK Award to Develop New Medicines to Treat Parkinson’s and Motor Neurone Disease

£2.68 million Biomedical Catalyst (BMC) early-stage award funded in part by Innovate UK to support development of disease-modifying medicines for debilitating chronic neurodegenerative disorders NRG has a pipeline of brain-penetrant small molecule inhibitors of the mitochondrial permeability transition pore (mPTP) with potential as first-in-class treatments for Parkinson’s disease (PD) and motor neurone disease (MND) NRG […]

NRG Therapeutics Completes MND Therapeutic Analysis Project with Medicines Discovery Catapult Supported by an Innovate UK EDGE Grant

NRG’s second therapeutic programme to explore brain penetrant small molecule inhibitors of the mitochondrial permeability transition pore (mPTP) as treatment for MND (ALS) Innovate UK EDGE grant enabled support from the Medicines Discovery Catapult Scientific and commercial insights gained will support MND clinical study design and Series A financing NRG Therapeutics Ltd (“NRG” or “company”), […]

NRG Therapeutics Launches MND Drug Discovery Programme and Announces new Collaboration in Australia

NRG’s second therapeutic programme to explore brain penetrant small molecule inhibitors of the mitochondrial permeability transition pore (mPTP) as treatment for MND (ALS) Research collaboration agreement with Australia’s WEHI to work with Associate Professor Seth Masters’ group, on back of groundbreaking research 1 NRG is industrial partner in recent AUD$1 million FightMND Grant to WEHI […]

Parkinson’s UK invests a further £490k in NRG Therapeutics to Progress Parkinson’s Drug Discovery Programme

NRG Therapeutics Ltd (“NRG” or “company”), an innovative neuroscience company targeting mitochondrial dysfunction, today announced further equity investment of £490k from Parkinson’s UK, to support the development of disease modifying drugs for the treatment of Parkinson’s. Following positive progress, this is the third investment Parkinson’s UK has made into NRG Therapeutics, bringing the total amount […]

NRG Therapeutics Awarded $500K Grant from The Michael J. Fox Foundation to Progress Parkinson’s Programme

NRG Therapeutics Ltd (“NRG” or “company”), an innovative neuroscience company targeting mitochondrial dysfunction, is pleased to announced that it has been awarded a $500,000 grant from The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF), to support its lead drug discovery programme and the development of a novel treatment for Parkinson’s. NRG Therapeutics is applying […]

Parkinson’s UK continues drug discovery with NRG Therapeutics Ltd

Parkinson’s UK has invested an additional £1 million in NRG Therapeutics Ltd’s mitochondrial drug development programme. This funding boost, on top of an initial £1 million investment, will support the development of a breakthrough drug with the potential to slow or halt the progression of Parkinson’s – something no known treatment can currently do. Initiated […]

Dr Richard Seabrook joins Board of NRG Therapeutics

Richard brings over 25 years of experience in scientific translation working with companies, charities and universities to accelerate drug development. During his time at The Wellcome Trust Richard established a £200 million Seeding Drug Discovery fund which facilitated small molecule development and early stage clinical studies and saw over 30 of its programmes progress to […]