Oct. 12, 2009 – Metabolic Solutions Development Company (MSDC) announced that it has received a $100,000 grant from the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF) to support the evaluation of PPAR-sparing insulin sensitizers as a potential treatment for Alzheimer’s disease.ADDF funding will support a collaboration between Dr. Douglas Feinstein (Jesse Brown VA Medical Center and University of Illinois at Chicago) and MSDC. Feinstein’s research focuses on neurodegenerative diseases while MSDC is developing novel treatments for type 2 diabetes and related metabolic diseases.
“Initial findings in our ongoing research suggest that some insulin sensitizers, including MSDC’s lead compound MSDC-0160, currently in Phase II studies for the treatment of type 2 diabetes, might slow down the buildup of plaques in the brains of mice,”... [PDF] Metabolic Solutions Development Company's -
