EnVivo Pharmaceuticals, a company dedicated to developing a broad range of novel central nervous system (CNS) therapies, announced today that it recently initiated a Phase 1 clinical trial of EVP-0962, its potent and selective gamma secretase modulator (GSM), in healthy volunteers. The trial is a double-blind, ascending single and multiple ...

EnVivo Pharmaceuticals announced today positive topline results of its randomized, placebo-controlled Phase 2b clinical trial of EVP-6124, its potent, orally bioavailable and selective alpha-7 agonist, in patients with schizophrenia. The data showed that EVP-6124 had a clinically meaningful and statistically significant impact on patients' overall cognition - the trial's pre-specified ...

EnVivo Pharmaceuticals announced it has discovered that EVP-6124, its alpha-7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor agonist, possesses a novel mechanism not previously seen in the scientific community: it acts as a co-agonist with Acetylcholine (ACh) to enhance cognition. By acting as a co-agonist and sensitizing the alpha-7 receptor, EVP-6124 makes it possible ...

EnVivo Pharmaceuticals announced the initiation and dosing of patients in a Phase IIb study of its EVP-6124 compound, a selective alpha-7 nicotinic agonist in patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease. The multi-center, dose ranging, placebo controlled, six-month study taking place in the U.S. and Europe is designed ...

WATERTOWN, Mass. , May 11 /- EnVivo Pharmaceuticals today announced the initiation and dosing of patients in a Phase IIb study of its EVP-6124 compound, a selective alpha-7 nicotinic agonist in patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease.  The multi-center, dose ranging, placebo controlled, six-month study taking place ...

EnVivo Pharmaceuticals announced the initiation and dosing of patients in a Phase 2b study of its EVP-6124 compound, a selective alpha-7 nicotinic agonist in patients with schizophrenia. EnVivo is conducting the multi-center, dose ranging, placebo controlled, three-month study in the U.S. and Europe. The study is designed to determine the ...

EnVivo Pharmaceuticals reported the successful reduction in the levels of aggregated Abeta or Beta-Amyloid in an aged transgenic model (Tg2576) of Alzheimer's disease with its lead gamma-secretase modulator (GSM) EVP-0962. The aggregated Abeta, containing predominately oligomeric and larger Abeta fibrillar species, is considered to be the toxic entity in Alzheimer's ...

WATERTOWN, Mass., Sept. 9 /- EnVivo Pharmaceuticals today announced the appointment of Stephen J. DiPalma as senior vice president and chief financial officer. DiPalma is responsible for overall financial operations for EnVivo including financial analysis, accounting and operations. "EnVivo has ...