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VistaGen Hopes To Bounce Back With Spray-Based Depression Drug

Good News After Two Failures

 
• By Andrew McConaghie

NASDAQ-listed company’s shares were reduced to penny stock after trial failures in 2019, but nasal spray PH10 offers glimmer of hope.

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Small US firm VistaGen Therapeutics Inc. is hoping that fresh impetus in the depression market will help propel its candidates towards the market, despite pipeline setbacks.

After around 30 years on pause, the pipeline for depression treatments started to flow again in 2019, with the arrival...

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