Rheostat Therapeutics

Rheostat is a biotechnology company developing treatments for neurodegenerative disease by modulation of mitophagy and autophagy that is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts and was founded in 2018 by Tim Harris, Wade Harper, Ivan Dikic and Josh Resnick. 



Rheostat is focusing on molecular pathways involved in clearance of toxic components such as damaged organelles or aggregated proteins because mutations in these pathways cause many neurodegenerative diseases associated with cognitive impairment. Rheostat aims to use knowledge about these clearance pathways to find and develop small molecules that can restore cellular balance for the treatment of neurodegenerative and rare diseases. 

Funding

Series A

On November 26, 2018 Rheostat Therapeutics completed their series A funding round with $23 million in funding from MRL Ventures Fund (lead investor), AbbVie Biotech Ventures, SV Health Investors, Dementia Discovery Fund, Amgen Ventures, Alexandria Venture Investments, and the Dementia Discovery Fund.