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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Vor Biopharma Inc. operates as a clinical-stage cell and genome engineering company. The company offers the Vor Bio platform, a technology platform for the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and other blood cancers. It develops tremtelectogene empogeditemcel (trem-cel), a genome-edited hematopoietic stem and progenitor allogeneic donor product candidate to treat acute myeloid leukemia (AML), myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), and other blood cancers; trem-cel in combination with Mylotarg to treat patients in VBP101, which is in phase 1 / 2; and VCAR33, a CAR-T therapy designed to target CD33, which is under preclinical studies to treat AML post-transplant. The company also develops trem-cel + VCAR33 treatment system, CD33-directed CAR-T program, which is under pre-clinical studies for the treatment of AML; VADC45 for the treatment of hematologic malignancies, conditioning, and immune reset, which is under preclinical studies; and CD33-CLL1 treatment system made with CD33-CLL1 multiplex-edited HSC therapy and a CD33-CLL1 multi-specific CAR-T therapy, which is under preclinical studies for the treatment of AML. It has a license agreement with Columbia University and the National Institutes of Health for patents; and with Editas Medicine, Inc. for ex-vivo Cas9 gene-edited HSC therapies for the treatment and/or prevention of hematological malignancies. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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