The Parkinson's and Disease Therapeutics Conference October 30, 2017 "The Parkinson's Disease Therapeutics Conference is The Michael J. Fox Foundation's annual scientific conference and the only one in the world focused exclusively on Parkinson's disease drug development." She has one of only 8 posters at this year's event: Veronica Francardo, PhD Lund University ANAVEX 2-73, a clinical Alzheimer drug candidate, induces neurorestoration in experimental parkinsonism https://www.michaeljfox.org/research/parkinsons-therapeutics-conference.html?navid=pd-therapeutics-conf
Neuroscience 2017 Conference November 13, 2017 from 3-4p Topic: 370.07 / C20 - Efficacy of ANAVEX 2-73, a Sigma-1 receptor agonist, in the MECP2 mouse model of Rett syndrome; Authors: J. S. SPROUSE, N. REBOWE, D. KLAMER, C. MISSLING; Anavex Life Sci., New York, NY https://www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/4376/presentation/16595
Neuroscience 2017 Conference November 14, 2017 from 2-3p http://www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/4376/presentation/28724 572.22 / S4 - ANAVEX 2-73, a clinical Alzheimer drug candidate, induces neurorestoration in experimental parkinsonism Authors *V. FRANCARDO1, F. BEZ1, J. S. SPROUSE2, C. MISSLING2, A. CENCI1; 1Lund Univ., Lund, Sweden; 2Anavex Life Sci., New York, NY "Conclusion: Our results reveal that ANA 2-73 ameliorates motor deficits in tests assessing spontaneous rotational activity and forelimb use asymmetry, and exerts noticeable neurorestorative effects on the damaged nigrostriatal dopamine system. Further experiments are now ongoing to elucidate the mechanisms underlying these effects."
Lastly, someone on the board had posted a link to another conference in Spain? in MAY 2018? that we'd copied/pasted the below abstract from Dr Francardo as well. However I can no longer find the link to the abstract/conference to cite the below, will need to reconfirm: "Using the same animal model of PD as in our previous study (i.e. intrastriatal 6-OHDA mouse model), we investigated the potential neurorestorative effects of ANAVEX 2-73, a compound with activity at both Sigma-1 and muscarinic receptors that is currently being tested in people affected by Alzheimer´s disease. Our results reveal that ANAVEX 2-73 is able to ameliorate parkinsonian motor symptoms in tests assessing spontaneous rotational activity and forelimb use asymmetry, and exerts neuroprotective/neurorestorative effects on the nigrostriatal dopamine system."