Yumanity Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of disease-modifying therapies for neurodegenerative diseases. Co.'s primary program, YTX-7739, is in development for the potential treatment and disease modification of Parkinson's disease. YTX-7739 targets an enzyme known as stearoyl-CoA desaturase (SCD). Inhibition of SCD in multiple cellular systems, including patient-derived neurons, as well as in a mouse model of Parkinson's disease, has been demonstrated to reverse the toxicity of misfolded alpha-synuclein, a protein strongly associated with Parkinson's disease.