Augnition Labs awarded Fast Track SBIR grant from the National Institute on Aging.

August 23, 2022 – Augnition Labs announced today that the National Institute on Aging (NIA) part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded the company a Small Business Innovation Research grant to develop and scale its Augmem™ Platform.

Co-founder, Dr. Michael Yassa notes that “when we think about Alzheimer’s disease, memory loss comes first. Sensitive detection of memory changes is key to clinical trial success, early intervention, improving outcomes, and enhancing quality of life”.

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) impacts over 6.5 million Americans, with a new diagnosis every 65 seconds. The establishment of early cognitive and biological indicators of AD can have a transformative impact on clinical care, as early diagnosis and intervention are critical for therapeutics to be maximally effective.


 

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Marco Peters, Ph.D.

Co-Founder and Scientific Advisor

Dr. Peters has over 20 years of experience in translational research, target discovery, and small molecule discovery for CNS indications. He built and managed small and large research teams, and his work has contributed to the discovery, progression, and clinical development of small molecule therapeutics for the treatment of multiple neurological indications including stroke, Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s disease, pain, and schizophrenia. He currently serves as vice president and head of translational science at Longboard Pharmaceuticals. Peters built the departments of Neurobiology and Behavioral Pharmacology, and managed target identification, in vivo pharmacology, and lead optimization at Dart Neuroscience. His work contributed to the advancement of multiple compounds into clinical development, and led to a broad intellectual property portfolio focused on enhancement of brain plasticity and cognitive function. Peters has a M.Sc. in Biochemistry from the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany and a PhD in Neuroscience from the University of London, UK. He conducted postdoctoral work on Alzheimer’s disease with Tetsuyuki Maruyama at Merck Sharp & Dohme (UK).