Prilenia is delighted to welcome to the team Ginger Barlow and Karen Bassett! Ginger joins the Biometrics team as Associate Director, Programming, responsible for providing programming support to ongoing statistical activities, the Huntington's disease European MAA submission, and ALS trial development. Karen joins the QA team as Sr. Manager, Quality Assurance Operations, where she will help oversee and maintain our document control system, manage LMS activities and provide Quality System oversight for GxP-related operations. Wishing both Ginger and Karen the best of luck in their respective new roles.
Prilenia
Biotechnology Research
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Dedicated to developing new treatments for neurodegenerative diseases and neurodevelopmental disorders.
About us
Prilenia is a clinical-stage biotech company focused on developing novel treatments for neurodegenerative and neurodevelopmental disorders. Our lead asset is Pridopidine, a first-in-class oral drug candidate with an established safety profile and potential in multiple movement disorders and neurodegenerative diseases affecting adults and children. Pridopidine is currently being evaluated for the treatment of Huntington’s disease in our global Phase 3 PROOF-HD trial, and for the treatment of ALS in the Phase 2/3 HEALEY platform trial. The company is led by Dr. Michael Hayden, MD, PhD, the founder of five biotech companies and previous President of Global R&D and Chief Scientific Officer at Teva. Michael has directed the development of multiple innovative drug products, leading to 35 approvals between 2012-2018. The Company is based in Naarden, the Netherlands, Herzliya, Israel and Boston, MA in the U.S.
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- Biotechnology Research
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- 11-50 employees
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- Boston, Massachusetts
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- Privately Held
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- 2018
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In the run up to JPM 2025, when the talk is all about deals, financing and assets, we wanted to highlight the biggest asset any company can have…its people! May has taken a different path in life but this path is what makes her what she is today, an amazing asset to Prilenia and a major contributor to the work being done to help people with HD, ALS and other neurodegenerative diseases. Meet May:
Senior Manager, Scientific IP Lead at Prilenia Therapeutics | PhD | Founder & Manager, Women in Biotech Community
When I was 12, my father sat us down and told us a story. He shared how he and my mother had promised each other, when they got married, that they would travel the world and go abroad every year. Life, however, with its mortgages and responsibilities, had other plans. But at one point, they made a bold and some might say, brave decision: to pause the routine and take a break from "normal" life. That’s when they told us we were about to embark on a year-long adventure. Backpacks were packed with just the essentials: two pairs of pants, three shirts, a sweatshirt, give or take. And so, with little more than that, we set out on a journey that would change our lives. In 2000–2001, we spent a year exploring the Far East: India, Nepal, Thailand, Laos, New Zealand, and Australia. Then, in 2003–2004, we took another year to travel through South and Central America: Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico, Guatemala, Cuba, Costa Rica, and more. In the process, I "missed" 7th grade and 10th grade completely. This experience continues to shape me. From vivid memories triggered by specific smells to being invited to job interviews simply because people are curious about the mention of this trip in my CV. Beyond that, I learned English and Spanish, languages I still use regularly. But more than the logistics or skills, this wasn’t just a "trip." It was a journey—a way of life. It wasn’t a week or a month of vacation. It was living differently, seeing the world from a whole new perspective, and learning lessons that no classroom could ever teach. Were there challenges? Absolutely. Were there difficult moments? Of course. But the overwhelming majority of our experience was magical, and absolutely worth it. Here’s to the journey, the memories, and the courage to live life a little differently. Sharing some photos from those days. The quality isn’t what we’re used to now, but the memories are timeless.
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Thank you ALS News Today for featuring Prilenia in your top 10 biggest ALS stories of 2024! We hope, and will be working toward doing our bit for 2025 to provide enough positive news for a top 20 list! https://lnkd.in/edr9u7Vm
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This week the neuroscience world lost one if its finest with the passing of Prof. Nir Giladi. Prilenia is deeply saddened by the loss of one of our earliest collaborators and friend. He will be sorely missed by all of us, and by everyone he worked with throughout his illustrious career, making a difference to everything he touched. We extend our condolences to his family.
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While Huntington’s disease is life limiting, Brianna is committed to living life to its fullest. While pursuing a Master’s degree in biological research, she has also been skydiving, trained with a circus, and has flown airplanes. Read about Brianna: https://lnkd.in/e8MdsFZY
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It's been a busy start to December with both The International Alliance of ALS/MND Associations - Alliance Meeting and Professional Forum and the Motor Neurone Disease (MND) Association 35th International Symposium on ALS/MND taking place! With the desperate need for new understanding and treatment options for #ALS / #MND, it is fantastic to see research professionals from across the world coming together to share the knowledge and ideas needed to make the progress the community so urgently requires. Thank you to all those working so hard to move this field forward and to those running expanded access programs that are a key part of the research and treatment process - to learn more: https://lnkd.in/gM-7S5kM
Sean M. Healey and AMG Center for ALS
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While living with Huntington’s disease can be overwhelming, for Brianna it set her life on course. Read her story: https://lnkd.in/e8MdsFZY
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Exciting to see Prilenia's Andrés Cruz-Herranz, M.D., Ph.D. providing an update on the progress we are making to bring new treatment options to people with #Huntingtonsdisease in Italy, Europe and across the world, at the annual meeting of the Lega Italiana Ricerca Huntington-LIRH in Rome!
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Wishing everyone attending the European Huntington's Disease Network (EHDN) UK and Ireland HD Network Meeting 2024, today and tomorrow, a hugely successful and inspiring meeting (hopefully contributed to by Prilenia's presentation outlining the progress being made to impact measures of disease progression)! To lean more about the Huntington's Disease Network visit https://lnkd.in/dU33E9TJ
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