STAT Plus: Startup Arkuda targets rapidly advancing, rare form of dementia

A rare inherited form of early-onset dementia that typically strikes people between the ages of 45 and 65 is the focus of a new biotech startup that officially launched Thursday.

Arkuda Therapeutics of Cambridge, Mass., has been incubated by Atlas Venture since February of last year. It has $44 million in venture capital raised by Atlas and the venture capital arm of Pfizer, the pharmaceutical giant.

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