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Developing the first pharmaceutical therapy for smell and flavor loss

At Cyrano Therapeutics, we’re dedicated to developing a therapy for people dealing with long-term smell and flavor loss. This condition was estimated to affect over 15 million people in the US alone before the COVID-19 pandemic, 4 million of whom had lost their smell due to a flu virus. Since the pandemic, the number of patients with long-term smell loss from a virus has increased more than 10 fold, with thousands of new patients emerging each day.

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Since the pandemic, the number of patients with long-term smell loss due to a virus has increased 10 fold to more than 40 million patients in the US and Europe.1-4

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