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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Jaguar Health, Inc., a commercial-stage pharmaceuticals company, focuses on developing plant-based prescription medicines for people and animals with gastrointestinal distress. The company operates through two segments, Animal Health and Human Health. It focuses on developing and commercializing prescription and non-prescription products for companion and production animals; and human products. The company offers Mytesi, an anti-secretory antidiarrheal drug for the symptomatic relief of non-infectious diarrhea in adults with HIV/AIDS on antiretroviral therapy; and Canalevia-CA1, a prescription drug product for chemotherapy-induced diarrhea in dogs. It is also developing Crofelemer, an anti-secretory antidiarrheal drug, which is in Phase III clinical trial for prophylaxis of diarrhea in adult cancer patients; Phase II clinical trials for rare/orphan disease indications, including short bowel syndrome with intestinal failure and microvillus inclusion disease; diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome; and for idiopathic/functional diarrhea. In addition, the company is developing Mytesi which is in Phase III clinical trial for cancer therapy-related diarrhea, as well as Phase II clinical trial for irritable bowel syndrome; and NP-300, a second-generation antidiarrheal drug that is in Phase I clinical trial for symptomatic relief and treatment of moderate-to-severe diarrhea. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
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