Mountain View, California, United States
Michael Kope, Dr. Matthew ‘Oki’ O’Connor
2019
Private company
Seed
4
Extracellular aggregates
atherosclerosis, hypercholesterolemia, heart failure, and macular degeneration
small molecule
Pre-clinical
Underdog Pharmaceuticals, Inc., is pursuing a mission to treat the underlying causes of age-related disease. The company develops simple and direct interventions targeting toxic forms of cholesterol, using rationally designed molecules, to provide the first true disease-modifying treatments for age-related diseases such as atherosclerosis, hypercholesterolemia, heart failure, and macular degeneration.