Protekt Therapeutics

PKR Inhibition for Treating Neurodegenerative Diseases

Active Seed Startup Bnei Brak Founded 2014-12

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Protekt Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company aiming to identify and develop a potent and selective oral PKR inhibitor (PKRi) to treat cognitive disorders such as Alzheimers disease and mild cognitive impairment. PKR is a stress and proapoptotic kinase that phosphorylates eIF2, a key protein in the translation machinery, and results in inhibition of p…