Flagship Pioneering is gearing up to launch a new company that seems to be developing precisely targeted treatments for neurodegenerative conditions, including Parkinson’s.
The new startup, dubbed Vesalius Therapeutics, will be led by Chris Austin, a high-profile recent Flagship recruit who was the founding director of the NIH’s National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences and a senior adviser to the National Human Genome Research Institute. Neurodegenerative conditions are one of his scientific areas of expertise.
Austin first described himself as CEO of Vesalius in October, according to public records reviewed by STAT. This will be his first Flagship company since joining the Cambridge, Mass.-based firm in March 2021. Austin also previously worked at Merck, researching new targets and treatments for schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s.
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