Full Circle: David Hung Looks Forward To Axovant's Alzheimer's Data, Reflects On Medivation

As the CEO of Axovant, David Hung is back where he started with Medivation – working on a drug for Alzheimer's disease.

Now that David Hung is heading up Axovant Sciences Ltd., the high-profile CEO's drug development career seems to be coming full circle, since Medivation Inc. got its start by developing dimebon in partnership with Pfizer Inc. for Alzheimer's disease.

Axovant's future hinges on the Phase III results for its Alzheimer's disease therapy intepirdine, due in September. Hung's ambitions for Axovant involve building the firm into a premier neurology company – much in the same way Medivation had become a leading prostate cancer company before being sold to Pfizer for $14bn last year

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