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Can COMPASS Bring Psilocybin’s ‘Magic’ To Depression?

COMPASS Pathways Hopes To Market its Psilocybin Capsule By 2025

 
• By Sten Stovall

COMPASS is testing a synthetic form of psilocybin, the active “magic mushroom” ingredient, in long-term depression patients, and thinks the capsule can be approved by 2025, its co-founder tells Scrip.

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UK-Based group’s psilocybin therapy has fast track status • Source: Shutterstock

COMPASS Pathways believes it has found a viable, mind-altering therapy for treating long-term depression: a synthetic form of psilocybin now in Phase IIb trials which, if successful, could surmount current legal barriers and stigma associated with psychedelic substances, the company’s co-founder and chief innovation officer told Scrip.

A big step towards that goal was achieved this year in a placebo-controlled Phase I study evaluating COMP360 (psilocybin) in...

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