Cortexyme Inc at Stifel CNS Day - Fireside Chat Transcript
Great. Thanks so much. Happy to be hosting Cortexyme for this discussion. And with me is Casey Lynch, and it's a pleasure to give you another band with you, Casey. So thanks so much for taking the time.
Maybe with that, can you just kind of give a quick overview of the company, the status of the GAIN Trial and then we can get into some Q&A?
Sure, happy to. Good morning, everyone. I'm happy to be here to talk about Cortexyme. The company was founded based on the seminal discovery by my co-founder, Steve Domini, when he was at UCSF.
The bacteria called porphyromonas gingivalis in the brain of Alzheimer's patients. And this discovery was made based on a lot of epidemiology showing that periodontal disease is a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease.
So people with periodontal disease early in life and are more likely to get Alzheimer's later and this bacteria, called porphyromonas gingivalis is in deals causes periodontal disease as a Keystone bacteria
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