About
A company built on a published record.
NeuroNova Therapeutics is a privately held pharmaceutical company based in Dallas, Texas, formed in 2025. The company is developing oral hydralazine as an investigational disease-modifying therapy for Alzheimer’s disease under the 505(b)(2) regulatory pathway.
Our operating premise is restraint: say only what the published record supports, state limitations before the reader finds them, and let the peer-reviewed literature carry the argument. The mechanism is published. The completed academic trial is registered and its protocol is published. The US program’s requirements are defined through a completed pre-IND interaction with FDA. The work ahead is to run that program.
Leadership
Hamid Harrison Mirzaei, PhD
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Mirzaei was a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Biochemistry at UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, from 2011 to 2019 — eight years, leading an independent research laboratory with graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and research scientists. He was recruited from the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle on a $2,000,000 Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) Scholar award. His doctorate in bioanalytical chemistry is from Purdue University.
Concurrently, and on a separate CPRIT award of approximately $4.5 million, he built and directed the UT Southwestern Proteomics Core Facility, growing it to seven mass spectrometers. He holds no current appointment at UT Southwestern.
His laboratory published the mechanistic work underpinning NeuroNova’s program — identifying hydralazine as an activator of NRF2/SKN-1 antioxidant signaling (Nature Communications, 2017) and establishing the catalytic subunit of protein kinase A as its direct binding target, driving sirtuin 1/5 activation and mitochondrial biogenesis (Nature Communications, 2019).
He is senior author on both Nature Communications papers and corresponding author of the EHSAN study protocol in Scientific Reports, and served as Study Chair of the EHSAN trial, which was sponsored and conducted by Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences (disclosure). He founded NeuroNova Therapeutics in 2025 to carry this published body of work toward a US registrational program in Alzheimer’s disease.