Newron Enters New Year With High Hopes For Evenamide

All being well, the Italian firm will soon have the results from a late-stage study of evenamide in schizophrenia patients who show an inadequate response to atypical antipsychotics.

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For Newron Pharmaceuticals SpA, 2024 is looking like a transformational year as the Italian biotech moves closer to presenting data from a potentially pivotal study evaluating evenamide in patients suffering from schizophrenia.

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