BIO-Europe Spring 2019: Addex CEO: There’s Space For Better Therapies In Parkinson’s

At the recent BIO-Europe Spring partnering conference, Tim Dyer, CEO of Addex Therapeutics, spoke to Lucie Ellis, executive editor of In Vivo, about the company’s small-molecule allosteric modulators for central nervous system disorders.

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At the event in Vienna, Austria, Addex Therapeutics CEO Tim Dyer discussed the company’s pipeline and strategy within the high-risk CNS landscape. Addex’s lead compound, dipraglurant, is being developed as a treatment for Parkinson’s disease levodopa-induced dyskinesia. Dyer talked about moving the drug into Phase III trials and preparing for commercial success. 

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