The Race to Find Viagra for the Brain

by Adam Piori at the Daily Beast

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/03/11/the-race-to-find-viagra-for-the-brain.html

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But in fact, in the mid ’90s, using the tools of modern genetics, Tully pulled off a feat that to many of his peers seemed every bit as exciting as anything these men ever did. Tully demonstrated he could give fruit flies the capacity to form the functional equivalent of photographic memories.

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So far, Tully and his team have had six drugs in clinical studies. Two have been terminated for toxicity-related issues. Four remain in the pipeline. Tully is tight-lipped about exactly what kind of compounds he has created so far.

“Obviously, I can’t tell you the details of some of those targets, but we continue to be focused on the CREB pathway and its role in long-term memory formation,” he says.

Tully has big plans: He aims to continue to enter two new molecules every year into clinical studies aimed solely at improving memory.


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