Anavex Life Sciences Corp.(NASDAQ:AVXL) continues to be at the top of many speculators watch lits in recent days after the Company announced new findings regarding its Alzheimer’s treatment. The ANAVEX 3-71 data provides evidence for a positive, more upstream effect on reducing synaptic loss, amyloid and tau pathologies, and neuroinflammation, which is potentially beneficial for the treatment of Alzheimer’s and other neurological diseases.

AVXL has seen a spectacular rise this year from pennies on the bb’s to become the top most traded stock on the entire exchange capturing the imaginations of legions of shareholders.

The party stopped once AVXL up-listed to the NASDAQ; while the Company had just reported positive safety and cognitive efficacy data for ANAVEX 2-73 the market wasn’t buying it yet and shorts attacked with a vengeance breaking off the legs that took AVXL to $14.83 highs.

We have been reporting on AVXL spectacular rise since Anavex moved north off its $0.15 base (pre-split) back in March of this year saying at the time ”AVXL is making an explosive move up on accelerating volume after reversing off $0.15 a share. The stock currently trades at a fraction of the $5 per share it commanded back in 2008.”

Anavex Life Sciences Corp.(NASDAQ:AVXL) is a publicly traded biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the development of novel drug candidates to treat central nervous system (CNS) diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease, pain and various types of cancer. According to earlier reports ”is sitting on drugs in development that could potentially turn the multi-billion dollar Alzheimer’s market upside down.”

According to fool.com ”Americans are spending $226 billion annually to treat the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease, and other dementias, rather than the cause of this disease itself. That’s an endlessly frustrating revelation that if left unchecked, could pose a big threat to the healthcare system. According to the Alzheimer’s Association, Alzheimer’s disease could cost Americans $1.1 trillion — yes, trillion — by 2050.

So there is no cure for Alzheimer’s disease, just 4 FDA approved drugs perscribed and sold on the market to treat the symptoms, not the cause.

What makes Anavex such an exciting story is the Company is not focused on treating the symptoms of Alzheimer’s but rather is focused on the root cause which is believed to be protein misfolding. AVXL’s Anavex 2-73 can work as an agonist for the sig-1R receptor that is behind protein misfolding. What is even more exciting is the fact that the same mechanism can work in Parkinson’s and Huntington diseases.

AVXL lead drug candidates, Anavex 2-73 and Anavex PLUS, a combination of Anavex 2-73 and donepezil (Aricept®) are currently being evaluated in a Phase 2a clinical trial for Alzheimer’s disease and continue to be the major catalyst here.

In earlier preclinical studies, Anavex 2-73 showed potential to halt and/or reverse Alzheimer’s disease. Additionally, positive preclinical data reveals the potential for Anavex 2-73 as a platform drug to treat additional CNS disorders, including epilepsy.

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Anavex began life as Thrifty Printing, a digital to photo print business targeting corner stores that didn’t work out. In 2007 the Company announced it has acquired a portfolio of three patents and one patent application covering drug candidates intended to be further developed through commercialization targeting the areas of neurological diseases and cancer. The patents were assigned by Dr. Alexandre Vamvakides who became Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) of the Company.

The Anavex story really took off when Dr Christopher Missling took over as CEO; he quickly assembled a team of big pharma and biotech experts, doubled the number of Scientific Advisors which is mostly Medical Doctors and raised a company’s record amount of $10M in one funding transaction which means that AVXL is now fully funded going forward.

Last month AVXL said investigators presented positive safety and cognitive efficacy data for ANAVEX 2-73, the Company’s lead investigational oral treatment for Alzheimer’s disease targeting sigma-1 and muscarinic receptors, which are believed to reduce protein misfolding including reduction of beta amyloid, tau protein and inflammation at the international CTAD 2015 conference in Barcelona, Spain.

On November 30 AVXL announced the publication of further data for ANAVEX 3-71 (formerly AF710B) in the peer-reviewed scientific journal Neurodegenerative Diseases. The ANAVEX 3-71 data provides evidence for a positive, more upstream effect on reducing synaptic loss, amyloid and tau pathologies, and neuroinflammation, which is potentially beneficial for the treatment of Alzheimer’s and other neurological diseases. ANAVEX 3-71 is part of the Company’s pipeline including ANAVEX 2-73 targeting sigma-1 and muscarinic receptors.

study author Abraham Fisher, PhD said “Our preclinical findings for ANAVEX 3-71 demonstrate its significant potential to enhance neuroprotection and cognition via concomitant activation of sigma-1 receptor and M1 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor (M1R), which could be a therapeutic advantage in treating Alzheimer’s and other related protein-aggregation diseases. Specifically, the study results reveal that ANAVEX 3-71 effects a strong reversal of synaptic loss in hippocampal neurons. At very low doses, it mitigates cognitive deficits and normalizes major pathological hallmarks in Alzheimer’s disease models indicating that ANAVEX 3-71 exerts a comprehensive disease-modifying effect. This data adds to the strong foundation of preclinical evidence to support the potential use of ANAVEX 3-71 in Alzheimer’s disease and a wide array of other central nervous system diseases.”

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AVXL has $13.1 million in cash as of September 15, 2015, has filed a $100-million shelf financing and entered into a purchase agreement with Lincoln Park Capital to sell an aggregate of $50 million worth of shares. The Company previously reported that it is fully funded through completion of the current Phase 2a clinical trial and that Anavex has sufficient cash for approximately two years. Anavex has approximately 31.1 million shares issued and outstanding. This is one stock that has got everyone’s attention; the Company is sitting on drugs in development that could potentially turn the multi-billion dollar Alzheimer’s market upside down. And its not just Alzheimer’s, Anavex 2-73 could work for Parkinson’s and Huntington diseases as well. The science behind Anavex is compelling the implications of which could be enormous and has not changed or been the subject of the recent massive short attack. We will be updating on AVXL when more details emerge so make sure you are subscribed to Microcapdaily so you know what’s going on with AVXL.

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