Research funded by the Wellcome Trust has provided a number of promising new drug targets for Huntington’s disease, a neurodegenerative disease. Scientists at the University of Cambridge have identified a number of candidate drugs to investigate further which encourage cells to “eat” the malformed proteins that lead to the disease.

Huntington’s disease is one of a number of degenerative diseases marked by build up of a malformed proteins in brain cells, mainly in the basal ganglia and the cerebral cortex. Normally, cells dispose of or recycle their waste material, including unwanted or misfolded proteins, through a process known as autophagy, or ’self-eating’.
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