Ranking Profile - Anavex Life Sciences Corp

Introduction

Anavex Life Sciences Corp (Anavex) is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company that focuses on developing differentiated therapeutics for the treatment of neurodegenerative and other central nervous systems (CNS) diseases, pain, and various types of cancer. The company’s target indications include Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Rett syndrome, epilepsy, neuropathic pain, depression, prostate cancer, pancreatic cancer infantile spasms, fragile X syndrome, Angelman syndrome, multiple sclerosis, depression, stroke, frontotemporal dementia, visceral pain, acute and neuropathic Pain and malignant melanoma. Its pipeline comprises one drug candidate and several compounds in diverse stages of pre-clinical study. Anavex's lead compound ANAVEX 2-73 is being developed for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and potentially other CNS diseases, including rare diseases. Anavex is headquartered in New York, the US.