Vistagen Therapeutics Inc Announces Appointment of Michael Liebowitz to Its CNS Clinical and Regulatory Advisory Board
October 15, 2018 at 08:30 am EDT
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VistaGen Therapeutics Inc. announced appointment of Michael Liebowitz, M.D. to the its CNS Clinical and Regulatory Advisory Board in preparation for pivotal Phase 3 development of PH94B as the first rapid-acting, on-demand treatment for social anxiety disorder (SAD), a debilitating social phobia which affects as many as 15 million American adults. He is also Managing Director of The Medical Research Network LLC and serves on the editorial board of Depression and Anxiety.Dr. Liebowitz has published numerous journal articles, books and chapters about psychiatry.
Vistagen Therapeutics, Inc. is a late clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company. The Company focuses on transforming the treatment landscape for individuals living with anxiety, depression, and other central nervous system (CNS) disorders. It is advancing therapeutics for treatment of anxiety, depression, and multiple CNS disorders. Its pipeline includes six clinical-stage product candidates, including fasedienol (PH94B), itruvone (PH10), PH15, PH80, and PH284, each an investigational agent belonging to a new class of drugs known as pherines, as well as AV-101, which is an oral antagonist of the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR). Pherines, which are administered as low-dose nasal sprays, are designed with a rapid-onset mechanism of action that activates chemosensory neurons in the nasal cavity and can impact key neural circuits in the brain without systemic uptake or direct activity on CNS neurons in the brain. PH94B is a synthetic investigational pherine from the androstane family.