Company Profile

Cassava Sciences Inc (AKA: Pain Therapeutics Inc)
Profile last edited on: 12/2/2023      CAGE: 49XX9      UEI: ZENEXUHPHMJ3

Business Identifier: Drugs for neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimers
Year Founded
1998
First Award
2004
Latest Award
2021
Program Status
Active
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Location Information

6801 N Capital Of Texas Hwy Bldg 1 Suite 300
Austin, TX 78731
   (512) 501-2444
   cwaarich@paintrials.com
   www.paintrials.com
Location: Single
Congr. District: 37
County: Travis

Public Profile

In March 2019, PainTherapeutics (NASDAQ:PTIE) announced that, effective immediately - better to reflect the shift in medical focus - the firm would be known as Cassava Sciences Inc (NASDAQ:SAVA). Previously located in California, Cassava Sciences is a biopharmaceutical company developing novel drugs originally based on technology licensed from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine: the firm having exclusive worldwide rights to patents covering low-dose opioid antagonist technology. With in-licensing over the years of technologies from others, the company?'s current lead drug candidate is REMOXY, a proprietary abuse-deterrent oral formulation of oxycodone for pain relief. The firm also develops FENROCK, a proprietary abuse-deterrent transdermal pain patch for pain relief; and PTI-125, a small molecule drug candidate to treat Alzheimer?s disease and other neurological disorders. The company is currently in a phase 2 testing of a drug candidate aimed at treating Alzheimer's, that does not seek to clear amyloid from the brain, but rather to stabilize a critical protein in the brain. Cassava Scences is also working to develop a biomarker/diagnostic to detect Alzheimer's using a simple blood test.

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Synopsis: Awardee Business Condition

Employee Range
25-49
Revenue Range
2.5M-5M
VC funded?
Yes
Public/Private
Publicly Traded
Stock Info
NASDAQ : SAVA
IP Holdings
25-49

Awards Distribution by Agency

Key People / Management

  Remi Barbier -- President

  Lindsay H Burns

  Nadav Friedmann -- Chief Medical and Operating Officer

  Shawn Kucera

  Grant L Schoenhard -- Chief Scientific Officer

  George B Thornton

  Mike S Zamloot

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