Biotech startup EPhysBio recently marked its one-year anniversary at URI. It is the second private-public partnership the Ryan Institute has helped to foster at URI, establishing a new drug discovery model in Rhode Island.
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Prescription “Study Drugs” Do Not Improve Cognition in Students Without ADHD
College students without ADHD are increasingly using them as “study drugs” in the hopes of boosting memory and learning. A new study looks at the trend.
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Hermann Professor of Neuroscience William Van Nostrand receives $3 million grant to study cerebral amyloid angiopathy biomarkers.
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MindImmune Therapeutics, Inc., a biotech startup based at URI in affiliation with the Ryan Institute, recently acquired licensing for two research programs: a first-in-kind Huntington’s drug and a non-opioid painkiller for neuropathic pain.
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