Acadia's Nuplazid Expansion Bid Bites The Dust

Nuplazid is a decent earner for the US biotech in psychosis caused by Parkinson’s disease but following previous failures in Alzheimer's and dementia, the drug has now proved a dud for treating the negative symptoms of schizophrenia.  

Steve Davis
Disappointed: CEO Steve Davis • Source: Acadia

ACADIA Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s hopes of moving its Parkinson's disease psychosis drug Nuplazid into schizophrenia have been crushed following a late-stage failure in the notoriously hard-to-treat indication.

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