MELBOURNE, Australia and SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 11, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Alterity Therapeutics (ASX: ATH, NASDAQ: ATHE) ('Alterity” or 'the Company”), a biotechnology company dedicated to developing disease modifying treatments for neurodegenerative diseases, today announced promising new data related to ATH434 were presented at the Society for Neuroscience 2024 in Chicago, USA.

The poster entitled, 'Potent Antioxidant and Mitochondrial-protectant Effects of ATH434, a Novel Inhibitor of α-Synuclein Aggregation with Moderate Iron-binding Affinity,” demonstrates that the neuroprotective and mitochondrial protectant properties of ATH434 include reducing lipid damage in two distinct and disease-relevant neuronal injury models. Additional studies elucidate the inherent antioxidant properties and benefits of ATH434 in cellular energy usage. ATH434's antioxidant properties were distinguished from those of another iron binding agent approved for treating iron overload. The study was run under the direction of Dr. Daniel J. Kosman, Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry at the State University of New York at Buffalo.