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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MeiraGTx Holdings plc, a clinical stage genetics medicines company, focusing on developing treatments for patients with serious diseases. The company develops various therapies for ocular diseases, including inherited retinal diseases and large degenerative ocular diseases; neurodegenerative diseases; and xerostomia. It is also developing AAV-AQP1 in Phase 2 trial for radiation-induced grade 2/3 radiation-induced xerostomia, as well as in Phase ½ trial for Sjogren's syndrome; AAV-GAD in Phase 2 trial for Parkinson's disease; AAV-RPE65 in Phase 2 trial for RPE65-associated retinal dystrophy; and AAV-CNGB3 and AAV-CNGA3, which are both in Phase 2 trial for achromatopsia, as well as offers AAV-AIPL1 for Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA) 4. In addition, the company's products under preclinical development include AAV-RDH12 for retinol dehydrogenase 12 mutation-associated retinal dystrophy; AAV-BBS10 for Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS) due to BBS10 mutations; AAV-RetGC for LCA type 1; and AAV-UPF1 for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, as well as programs for Alzheimer's disease, and wet and dry neovascular age related macular degeneration. Further, it provides riboswitch platform for the delivery of metabolic peptides; and cell therapies for oncology, autoimmune disease, and long term intractable pain. The company has collaborations with Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine for the research, development, and commercialization of gene therapies for the treatment of inherited retinal disease; and Hologen Limited for the research, development, manufacture, and commercialization of AAV-GAD investigational gene therapy for the treatment of Parkinson's disease, AAV-BDNF investigational gene therapy for genetic obesity disorders, and other genetic medicines to the central nervous system. MeiraGTx Holdings plc was founded in 2015 and is based in New York, New York.
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