Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation and Atlas Venture back biotechnology, neuroscience startup.

Rodin Therapeutics, a US-based company which applies epigenetics to therapeutics for neurological disorders, has been co-founded by US-based venture capital firm Atlas Venture and Germany-based biotechnology services company Proteros Biostructures, with seed funding provided by Atlas Venture and Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation (venture capital subsidiary of healthcare company Johnson & Johnson).

Johnson & Johnson’s newly opened Boston Innovation Center (located in Cambridge, Massachusetts) and Janssen Research & Development, part of the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, will…