July 12, 2017 07:29 AM EDT

Big Pharma VCs jump in to back a $63M mission to tackle a genetic driver of Alzheimer’s

John Carroll

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About five years ago a pair of scientists at the Gladstone Institutes — Robert Mahley and Yadong Huang — had seen enough clinical failures in Alzheimer’s drug …

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