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APRINOIA Therapeutics

245 Main Street, Cambridge, MA, 02142, United States

Overview

Aprinoia Therapeutics is a Taipei, Taiwan–based clinical-stage neuroscience biopharmaceutical company led by founder and CEO Ming-Kuei Jang. The company is advancing three diagnostic and two therapeutic product candidates targeting Alzheimer’s disease, non‑AD tauopathies, Lewy body dementia and Parkinson’s disease. Its most advanced asset is the tau PET imaging tracer 18F‑PM‑PBB3, which showed potential to visualize tau pathologies in Alzheimer’s and progressive supranuclear palsy patients in early 2017 clinical studies. Aprinoia has operations in Taiwan, China and Japan and operates across preclinical and clinical stages. The company focuses on both imaging diagnostics and therapeutic pipelines and plans to use new capital to advance those programs through preclinical and clinical development.

Total raised
$11M
Funding rounds
1
Latest round
Series B
Latest activity
Jan 2018

Industries

  • Biotechnology
  • Health Diagnostics
  • Medical
  • Therapeutics
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Recent funding

  1. Series B

    Jan 2018

    $11M

Team

  • Ming-Kuei Jang

    Cofounder & CEO

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  • Bradford Navia

    Chief Medical Officer and Executive Vice President

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  • Paul Tempest

    Head of Medicinal Chemistry and Senior Vice President

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  • Masaomi Miyamoto

    Executive Vice President of R&D and Operations