Paris, France and Geneva, Switzerland, July 5, 2021 – 7:30am CEST – GeNeuro (Euronext Paris: CH0308403085 – GNRO), a biopharmaceutical company developing new treatments for neurodegenerative and autoimmune diseases, such as multiple sclerosis (MS), presented new data showing that the neuropsychiatric symptomatology seen in “post-COVID” patients may be due to activation of HERV-W ENV expression in these individuals by SARS-CoV-2, and to its persistence long after the acute COVID phase. These data, presented at the first “Neuro Sciences Psychiatry and Neurology Days” held in Paris, France, on July 1-2, provide a biologic rationale explaining why so many COVID-19 patients develop long-term neurological and psychiatric symptoms. This could open the door for a therapeutic intervention with temelimab targeting HERV-W ENV.
https://geneuro.ch/data/news/2021.07.05-PR-GeNeuro-FondaMental-07052021-VF-EN.pdf