Cantabio Pharmaceuticals Inc. announced that Dr. Gergely Toth, Cantabio's CEO, will present results of the company's DJ-1 protein targeting small molecule pharmacological chaperone therapeutic program at the Neuro4D Conference (Advances in Drug Discovery for Proteopathic Neurodegenerative Diseases) in Mainz, Germany, June 4 – 5, 2018. Loss of DJ-1 protein function has been linked to the onset of a variety of diseases, such as Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, stroke, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and type II diabetes. The DJ-1 protein is considered to be one of the primary therapeutic targets for Parkinson’s disease, as it is genetically linked to the onset of familial Parkinson’s disease. The presentations will describe the positive therapeutic activity in cellular and in a MPTP mice model of Parkinson’s disease of Cantabio's novel DJ-1 protein targeting small molecule drug candidates.