Anavex Life Sciences Corp (AVXL)

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There are three likely reasons why Dr. Hampel left Anavex for Essai:

1. More money
2. More prestige
3. More likely to win FDA approval

I know a guy who played some professional basketball overseas. Star of his team, everyone loved him. One day he ran into an NBA scout who was on vacation with his wife during the offseason and who remembered scouting him when he was in college.

A few weeks later he gets a call with an offer to join the NBA's D-League. The pay wasn't much better, but anything with NBA in the title was automatically more prestigious and it offered him a more direct chance to pursue his ultimate career goal.

My guess is that Dr. Hampel found himself in a similar situation when a major league pharmaceutical company offered him a job he couldn't turn down, because the alternative would have been continuing to play in the minors.

That or he saw data he didn't like and decided to jump ship.