Coya Therapeutics, Inc. Announces Preclinical Data Supporting the Role of Expanded Regulatory T Cells (Tregs) as Potential Disease-Modifying Treatment in an Animal Model of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD)
The preclinical study was conducted by Ali Faridar, M.D., of Houston Methodist Hospital (Houston, Texas), under the leadership of Stanley Appel, M.D., the chair of Coya’s Scientific Advisory Board.
- The preclinical study was conducted by Ali Faridar, M.D., of Houston Methodist Hospital (Houston, Texas), under the leadership of Stanley Appel, M.D., the chair of Coya’s Scientific Advisory Board.
- “These data further support that enhancing Treg function is a potential strategy to ameliorate neuroinflammation, which may modify Alzheimer’s Disease-associated pathology in the brain.
- Stanley Appel, MD., Professor, Houston Methodist Hospital and Chair of Coya’s Scientific Advisory Board, commented, “Dr.
- Furthermore, Treg-treated mice showed significant reduction in total and plaque-associated microglia as well as reactive astrocytes in dentate gyrus and frontal cortex versus untreated mice.