Levicept Looks For No Pain, More Gain With Osteoarthritis Offering

The UK firm is weighing up its options for late-stage development of LEVI-04 after unveiling positive Phase II results of Phase II for the neurotrophin-3 inhibitor in moderate-to-severe osteoarthritis.

Eliot Forster
CEO Eliot Forster • Source: Teresa Walton

Just over a decade after Simon Westbrook bought a promising non-addictive he had developed from former employer Pfizer Inc., the company he formed – Levicept Ltd– has posted promising mid-stage data on the drug for osteoarthritis pain.

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