Nurosene Health Inc. announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, NertraMark Corp. was selected by Mitacs Inc., alongside the MitoCanada Foundation, Mitochondrial Innovation Initiative and The University of Toronto, to conduct research into mitochondrial genetics in neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric diseases. Nurosene was chosen based on the positive results from earlier research completed at the
University of Toronto, at Dr. Ana C. Andreazza's lab, utilizing NetraMark's NetraAI (Choi et al, J Psychiatr Res, 2021). This research demonstrated the capabilities of NetraAI machine learning to segregate complex patient populations. The study was able to reveal critical insights with regards to mental health and the role that mitochondria play. The result of the earlier collaboration, which used NetraMark's NetraAI technology, explored the interplay between mitochondrial function and psychiatric disorders, was recently published here: This new research is designed to provide insights into how mitochondrial function influences disease severity and progression of patients with neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders, with possible applications in disease management, treatment and patients' quality of life, and improve the effectiveness of Nurosene's Nuro app in providing precision insights to its users. This research will be conducted by PhD student, Jaehyoung Choi at the University of Toronto under the supervision of renowned professor Dr. Ana C. Andreazza, Nurosene's Chief Scientific Officer Dr. Joseph Geraci and the support of both Mitacs and the MitoCanada Foundation.