Anavex Life Sciences
Anavex Life Sciences Corp. operates as a biopharmaceutical company. It engages in the development of novel therapeutics for the treatment of neurodegenerative, neurodevelopmental, and neuropsychiatric disorders, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia, Rett syndrome, and other central nervous system (CNS) diseases, pain, and various types of cancer. Its lead drug candidate, ANAVEX 2-73 (blarcamesine), which has completed a Phase 2a and a Phase 2b/3 clinical trial for Alzheimer's disease; a Phase 2 proof-of-concept study in Parkinson's disease dementia; and a Phase 2 and a Phase 3 study in adult patients and one Phase 2/3 study in pediatric patients with Rett syndrome. Its ANAVEX 2-73 is an orally available drug candidate designed to restore cellular homeostasis by targeting SIGMAR1 and muscarinic receptors. The ANAVEX 2-73 also exhibited anticonvulsant, anti-amnesic, neuroprotective, and anti-depressant properties in animal models, indicating its potential to treat additional CNS disorders, including epilepsy. The company's ANAVEX 3-71, which targets SIGMAR1 and M1 muscarinic receptors, is a clinical stage drug candidate demonstrating disease-modifying activity against the Alzheimer's disease in transgenic (3xTg-AD) mice, including cognitive deficits, amyloid, and tau pathologies. Anavex Life Sciences Corp. was incorporated in 2004 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
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MiNK Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, engages in the discovery, development, manufacture, and commercialization of allogeneic, off-the-shelf, and invariant natural killer T (iNKT) cell therapies to treat cancer and other immune-mediated diseases. The company develops agenT-797, an off-the-shelf, allogeneic, and native iNKT cell therapy that is in Phase 2 clinical trial for the clinical safety and efficacy of the combination of agenT-797, botensilimab plus balstilimab with ramucirumab and paclitaxel for patients with previously treated, advanced esophageal, gastric, or gastro-esophageal junction adenocarcinoma; Phase 1 trial as a monotherapy in combination with anti-PD-1 checkpoint inhibitors, pembrolizumab, and nivolumab for refractory solid tumor cancers; and Phase 1 trial for the treatment of moderate to severe viral acute respiratory distress syndrome. It is also developing MiNK-215, an IL-15 armored tumor stromal targeting the FAP-CAR-iNKT program to treat solid tumors and inflammation; and MiNK-413, an IL-15 armored CAR-iNKT program targeting B cell maturation antigen for auto-immune diseases. The company has collaborations with Autonomous Therapeutics to target and treat metastatic tumors; and ImmunoScape, Inc. to discover and develop T-cell receptor therapies against targets in solid tumors. The company was formerly known as AgenTus Therapeutics, Inc. and changed its name to MiNK Therapeutics, Inc. in June 2021. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in New York, New York. MiNK Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Agenus Inc.
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