Yumanity Therapeutics Inc, formerly Proteostasis Therapeutics, Inc., is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company. The Company is engaged in treatment of neurodegenerative diseases through its scientific foundation and drug discovery platform. The platform is designed to enable the Company to screen for potential disease-modifying therapies by overcoming toxicity of misfolded proteins in neurogenerative diseases. The Company's product candidate, YTX-7739, is in Phase 1 clinical development for Parkinson's disease and YTX-9184, in IND-enabling studies for Dementia with Lewy Bodies. The Company's pipeline consists of additional programs focused on multi- system atrophy, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease), frontotemporal lobar dementia (FTLD), and Alzheimer's disease.
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