Alzheimer’s
Disease Model

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Alzheimer’s
Disease Model

Neurix offers a platform for identifying promising therapeutic leads for Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), using 3D human neural models.

Our brain organoid models faithfully recapitulate both sporadic and familial AD, capturing the distinct features of each disease form.

This technology enables drug and compound screening, cell and gene therapy testing, and detailed mechanism-of-action studies.

This versatile system supports early-stage discovery with pathophysiologically relevant insights into neurodegenerative processes.

OUR
Alzheimer’s
Disease Models

01.

Sporadic

Cell bank for organoid generation, with complex genotypes reflecting sporadic Alzheimer’s. Derived from iPSCs reprogrammed from AD peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs).

02.

APOE4 homozygous

Organoids bridging familial and sporadic Alzheimer’s pathology for patient stratification and targeted studies

03.

Familial

Organoids derived from  iPSCs with APP695 and PSEN1dE9 mutations.

DRUG TESTING
CHARACTERIsATION
& READOUTS  

Drug toxicity

Brain organoid growth: viability and proliferation

Organoid

  • Area
  • Volume
  • Roundness
  • Sphericity
  • Histology

Gene expression

  • cDNA array
  • RNA seq

Readouts

  • Histological analysis & quantification: phosphorylated Tau, β-amyloid aggregates  
  • Secretion: β-amyloid
  • qPCR markers (cortical, glial, neuronal)
  • p-tau217 quantification

Representative brightfield or fluorescence pictures of neurosphere from control and AD patient cells at day 80 of differentiation showing the disease hallmark of β-amyloid accumulation.

Gene expression of stage-specific markers at different days of differentiation: NeuN (neuronal marker), BRN2 (transient cortical marker), and S100β (astrocyte marker).

Morphology

High-throughput model

Highly reproducible model

AD hallmark- β-amyloid

Representative images of organoids from control and AD patient cells at day 90 of differentiation, showing the disease hallmark of β-amyloid accumulation. Magnification 63X.