Newron Pharmaceuticals: EKF 2023 QuickView

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Newron Pharmaceuticals: EKF 2023 QuickView

Key evenamide readouts on the horizon

Soo Romanoff

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Soo Romanoff

Managing Director - Head of Content, Healthcare

Newron is a Swiss Stock Exchange SIX-listed (NWRN) biopharmaceutical company focused on developing novel medicines for diseases of the central nervous system. The company’s marketed product, Xadago (or safinamide), is an add-on therapy to levodopa for the management of Parkinson’s disease, and continues to drive top-line revenues.

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