Getting the Bugs out of Alzheimer’s: A New Therapeutic Approach

Cortexyme CEO, Casey Lynch, discusses her life-long passion for finding treatments for neurodegenerative diseases in general, and Alzheimer’s in particular. She tells how her experience over the years, in different labs, and in different companies taught her that the science behind proposed Alzheimer’s interventions was missing the forest for the trees, and that an entirely different hypothesis suggested that one of the root causes of Alzheimer’s is a history of infection with a bug that causes periodontal disease: P. gingivalis. Sound far-fetched? Well, give a listen…