Milena Peregrino, PhD - Reversing Muscle Loss

<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Angel Scale Biotech: <a href= "https://syndicate.angelinvestboston.com/en-us/the-surge-of-opportunities-in-angel-scale-biotech"> Learn More</a></span></p> <p class="p1"> </p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">Brazilian startup MirScience Therapeutics is working on reversing muscle loss. I had an illuminating chat with co-founder Milena Peregrino, PhD about the technology and the company’s progress. </span></p> <p class="p2"> </p> <p class="p2">Sponsored by Purdue University entrepreneurship and Peter Fasse, patent attorney at Fish and Richardson.</p> <p class="p2"> </p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">Highlights:</span></p> <ul class="ul1"> <li class="li3"><span class="s1">Sal Daher Introduces Milena Peregrino</span></li> <li class="li3"><span class="s1">MicroRNAs and What They Do</span></li> <li class="li3"><span class="s1">MirScience Therapeutics</span></li> <li class="li3"><span class="s1">"... Keeping in mind that we're talking about mouse models, it has not gone into human trials yet, but this is very promising..."</span></li> <li class="li3"><span class="s1">"... We are going to need the non-rodent species. For now, we are planning to go with non-human primates, so monkeys..."</span></li> <li class="li3"><span class="s1">How MirScience Was Founded</span></li> <li class="li3"><span class="s1">Milena's Background</span></li> <li class="li3"><span class="s1">"... Most people die from the results from falls. It's not necessarily immediately, it's within six months. If they have a severe fall, old people decline very fast and so this has huge implication for people to age better. The ability to have muscular old people going around instead of frail people who fall over easily..."</span></li> <li class="li3"><span class="s1">Why Milena Chose Biology</span></li> <li class="li3"><span class="s1">Advice to the Audience</span></li> </ul> <p class="p2"> </p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">Topics: biotech, discovering entrepreneurship, founding story</span></p>