{"id":146429,"date":"2022-09-15T03:26:20","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T08:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/pretzel-therapeutics-launches-with-72m-to-advance-mitochondrial-therapies"},"modified":"2022-09-15T03:26:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T08:26:20","slug":"pretzel-therapeutics-launches-with-72m-to-advance-mitochondrial-therapies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/pretzel-therapeutics-launches-with-72m-to-advance-mitochondrial-therapies","title":{"rendered":"Pretzel Therapeutics Launches with $72M to Advance Mitochondrial Therapies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/pretzel-therapeutics-launches-with-72m-to-advance-mitochondrial-therapies.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Biotech start-up Pretzel Therapeutics launched Monday with $72.5 million in Series A financing to develop novel, mitochondria-based therapies for rare genetic disorders and diseases of aging.<\/p>\n<p>Pretzel plans to target mitochondrial diseases, a highly heterogenous group of conditions caused by DNA mutations in the mitochondria or the nucleus. These disorders are very rare, afflicting around one in 5,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>Pretzel CEO Jay Parrish told <em>BioSpace <\/em>the funding<em> \u201c<\/em>should enable us to get close to the clinic if not into the clinic with one or more programs.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biotech start-up Pretzel Therapeutics launched Monday with $72.5 million in Series A financing to develop novel, mitochondria-based therapies for rare genetic disorders and diseases of aging. Pretzel plans to target mitochondrial diseases, a highly heterogenous group of conditions caused by DNA mutations in the mitochondria or the nucleus. These disorders are very rare, afflicting around [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}