Aspen Neuro Adds $70M to Test Parkinson’s Cell Therapy in the Clinic

Aspen Neuro Adds $70M to Test Parkinson’s Cell Therapy in the Clinic

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Xconomy
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Parkinson’s disease patients experience progressive breakdown of their neurons, cells essential to movement and mental function. Aspen Neuroscience, a biotech working to develop a therapy that would reprogram those patients’ own living cells in ways that would allow the cells to reconstruct their damaged neural networks, has raised $70 million in a Series A financing round.