Anavex Life Sciences Corp (AVXL)

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Hint! Retrospective!

Five years ago, the acclaimed academic noticed he was becoming forgetful and was struggling with simple tasks like reading maps. Brain scans confirmed he was in the early stages of the degenerative condition.

Now, Dr Pittock is participating in a trial with Australian researchers and sees it as one of his final contributions to science.

"I want to be useful. I wanted to do something that had some practical value to humanity," he said.

That would be 2013, yes its that long ago Anavex were running a small open label P2 trial in Australia.