On August 11, 2022, Pasithea Therapeutics Corp. (Nasdaq: KTTA), a biotechnology company focused on the discovery, research, and development of new and effective treatments for psychiatric and neurological disorders, announced positive results from a preclinical proof of concept study of PAS002, its tolerizing vaccine program in multiple sclerosis (MS). Earlier this year, a study in Nature, the world's leading science journal, showed that a molecule called GlialCAM found in the brain’s white matter is attacked in MS. GlialCAM shares a component of its protein structure that mimics an identical component of the Epstein Barr Virus (“EBV”) Nuclear Antigen-1, which plays a critical role in triggering MS.
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