Neurolixis Enters Collaboration with Jagiellonian University of Kraków

DANA POINT, Calif. - Jan. 9, 2015 - PRLog -- Neurolixis today announced that it had entered into a strategic drug discovery collaboration with Jagiellonian University Medical College in Kraków, Poland. The collaboration will take advantage of resources and technology from both groups to deliver the next generation of central nervous system (CNS) therapeutics targeting disorders such as depression and schizophrenia.

Dr. Adrian Newman-Tancredi, Chief Scientific Officer of Neurolixis, commented, “We are delighted to initiate this collaboration with the research team at Jagiellonian University Medical College. By combining the expertise of both groups, we believe this collaboration will provide novel drug treatments to address unmet disorders of the CNS.”

Assoc. Prof. Anna Wesołowska, Vice-Dean of Pharmacy Faculty for Research and International Co-operation, added, “The Pharmacy Faculty of Jagiellonian University Medical College has expertise in organic chemistry and CNS pharmacology and Neurolixis is a rapidly-expanding bioscience company. We believe that this combination forms an excellent basis for a successful drug discovery partnership in the areas of mood disorders and psychoses.”

Depression, anxiety and psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia affect 100 million people in the European Union each year with estimated medical and social costs of over 200 billion Euros. Many patients do not respond adequately to existing antidepressants and antipsychotics, so a large medical need exists for more efficacious and well tolerated treatments.

About Neurolixis, Inc.

Neurolixis, located in Dana Point, California, is a privately held biotechnology company developing therapies for disorders of the central nervous system. The Company is focused on developing small molecule drugs for the treatment of neurological disorders such as Parkinson’s disease and Rett syndrome and of psychiatric disorders such as depression and schizophrenia. Additional information is available at http://www.neurolixis.com.

About Jagiellonian University, Kraków

Jagiellonian University in Kraków was positioned by QS World University Rankings as the best Polish university among the world's top 500. It is one of the oldest universities in the world (founded in 1364) and is highly reputed in the fields of medicine and biomedical research. Additional information regarding Jagiellonian University is available at http://www.uj.edu.pl/en_GB/uniwersytet.

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