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23 Mar 2016
Curing Parkinson’s Disease
Re: Jonathan Solomon (MBA 2007); Hampus Hillerstrom (MBA 2007)
Topics: Health-Health Care and TreatmentInnovation-Collaborative InnovationHealth-Health DisordersScience-BiomedicineEntrepreneurship-General
HBS alumni Jonathan Solomon and Hampus Hillerstrom (both MBA 2007) play an important role in Jon Palfreman’s recent book Brain Storms: The Race to Unlock the Mysteries of Parkinson’s Disease. As the cofounders of NeuroPhage Pharmaceuticals, the pair is working to understand the therapeutic properties of a virus known as M13—properties first recognized by Solomon’s mother, a leading Alzheimer’s researcher—and produce a medication to treat diseases like Parkinson’s and Alzheimers’s.
As Solomon tells Palreman: “A single compound that effectively treats Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s could be a twenty billion-dollar-a-year blockbuster drug.”
READ MORE in an excerpt from the book.
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