Oryzon Genomics: Alzheimer aid
Barcelona-based epigenetics specialist Oryzon Genomics has made new additions to its Scientific Advisory Board in order to be prepared for the completion of its Phase I trial for dementia drug ORY-2001. Renowned Alzheimers disease expert Howard Fillit will take over a seat on the board.
Fillit is the Founding Executive Director and Chief Science Officer of the Alzheimers Drug Discovery Foundation. He is also a clinical professor of geriatric medicine and palliative care, medicine, and neurosciences at The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York. Fillit has held faculty positions at Rockefeller University, SUNY-Stony Brook School of Medicine, and Cornell University School of Medicine, and has more than 300 scientific publications to his name. Together with Fillit, neurologist José Luis Molinuevo, Scientific Director of the Barcelonabeta Brain Research Center of the Pasqual Maragall Foundation, will also join Oryzons Scientific Advisory Board.