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Anavex Life Sciences Provides Business Update and Reports Fiscal 2022 Second Quarter Financial Results
Company to host a webcast today at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time NEW YORK, May 10, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Anavex Life Sciences Corp. (“Anavex” or the “Company”)
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[{"type":"text","content":"Company to host a webcast today at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time NEW YORK, May 10, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Anavex Life Sciences Corp. (“Anavex” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: AVXL), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing differentiated therapeutics for the treatment of neurodegenerative and neurodevelopmental disorders including Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Rett syndrome and other central nervous system (CNS) diseases, today reported financial results for its fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2022. \"We are pleased with the continued advancement regarding our lead product candidate ANAVEX®2-73 in Alzheimer’s disease and Rett syndrome as we maintain our attention on execution across each of our clinical programs and overall business operations,\" said Christopher U Missling, PhD, President and Chief Executive Officer of Anavex. \"We are also looking forward to next month’s R&D Day’s event, where we will present our broad SIGMAR1 platform portfolio, which allows us to expand further within the neurodegenerative and rare disease space. We remain on track to deliver data readouts, as well as presentations at medical meetings and initiating biomarker-driven precision medicine clinical studies through the rest of the year as planned.\" ANAVEX®2-73 Program and other Near-Term Pipeline Data Updates: Top-line results from the randomized, placebo-controlled Phase 2b/3 study ANAVEX®2-73-AD-004 for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease are expected 2H 2022.Top-line results from the randomized, placebo-controlled EXCELLENCE Phase 2/3 study ANAVEX®2-73-RS-003 for the treatment of pediatric patients with Rett syndrome are expected 2H 2022.ANAVEX will host a R&D Day for investors and analysts on Tuesday, June 21, 2022. Anavex’s R&D Day will include presentations from the Company’s leadership team with a focus on the Company’s clinical development pipeline. Additional details will follow closer to the event.Oral presentation of ‘Effects of the Sigma-1 receptor agonist blarcamesine (ANAVEX®2-73) in a murine model of fragile X syndrome: Neurobehavioral phenotypes and receptor occupancy’ to be presented at 18th NFXF International Fragile X Conference, July 14-17, 2022, in San Diego, California.Pipeline expansion of the ANAVEX platform using gene biomarkers of response, applying precision medicine for neurological disorders with unmet ...