Facio Therapies
Budget
FSHD Canada Foundation made a C$100,000 investment in Facio Therapies in late 2016.
Lay Abstract
Facio Therapies (Facio-therapies.com) is a company based in the Netherlands that is focused on finding a cure for FSHD. Facio have screened over 34,000 small molecule compounds, and obtained over 300 so-called ‘hits’ and identified novel approaches to repress the production of the muscle-toxic DUX4 protein. Facio are now preparing for the development of lead compounds for preclinical and clinical development.