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The New Revolutionary: Ovid's Levin On Pioneering In Neurology

 
• By Lubna Ahmed

Emerging Company Profile: Orphan disease-focused Ovid Therapeutics, with $80m in VC financing in the bag and an alliance with Takeda, recently raised $75m in a US initial public offering. Scrip spoke with CEO Jeremy Levin and chief business and finance officer Yaron Werber before the recent IPO about how the young biotech firm intends to become a successful neurology company.

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Ovid Therapeutics' CEO Jeremy Levin talks to Scrip

CEO Jeremy Levin joined Ovid Therapeutics Inc. in April 2015 after he left the chief executive role at Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. in Oct. 2013 and now, two years after taking the helm at Ovid, he will lead another public company since the firm has raised $75m in a US initial public offering.

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