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Anavex Life Sciences Initiates Placebo-Controlled U.S. Phase 2 Clinical Trial of ANAVEX®3-71 in Schizophrenia

Anavex Life Sciences Corp. (“Anavex” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: AVXL), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing differentiated therapeutics for the treatment of neurodegenerative, neurodevelopmental, and psychiatric disorders, including Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Rett syndrome, schizophrenia, and other central nervous system (CNS)…

Beckman Coulter and Fujirebio Expand Partnership to Develop Patient-friendly, Blood-based Neurodegenerative Disease Diagnostics

Beckman Coulter Diagnostics, a clinical diagnostics leader, and Fujirebio, a leader in neurological markers and In Vitro Diagnostic (IVD) manufacturing, today announced an expansion of their partnership focused on development, manufacturing and clinical adoption of neurodegenerative disease assays. In 2023,…

ProLynx announces initiation of Phase I/II clinical trial of its DNA-damaging agent PLX038 in patients with rare CNS tumors at the National Cancer Institute (NCI)

ProLynx Inc. announced today that the first patient was treated with PLX038 (PEGylated SN-38) in a Phase I/II clinical trial for primary CNS tumors driven by MYC or MYCN amplifications. National Institutes of Health’s NCI investigators Dr. Marta Penas-Prado and Dr. Mark Gilbert are…

Genetics of Nearby Healthy Tissue May Help Catch Lung Cancer’s Return

Genetic information collected from seemingly healthy tissue near lung tumors may be a better predictor of whether cancer will come back after treatment than analysis of the tumors themselves, according to new research led by NYU Langone Health and its…