February 27, 2024
Augustine Therapeutics awarded with a US ALS Association grant to advance novel selective HDAC6 inhibitors
Leuven, Belgium, 27 February 2024 – Augustine Therapeutics, a biotech company based in Leuven focused on developing innovative medicines for rare neurodegenerative disorders, received a 2023 Lawrence and Isabel Barnett Drug Development Program grant from the US ALS Association. The USD 300K grant will be used to support the preclinical development of a new therapeutic class of orally active and brain-penetrant small molecule HDAC6 inhibitor candidates for the potential treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), in collaboration with the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research.