Empowered Patient Podcast

Laxminarayan Bhat, Founder, President, and CEO of Reviva Pharmaceuticals, is focused on developing next-generation therapies for neurological diseases, particularly schizophrenia. Their lead candidate, brilaroxazine, acts on multiple neuro receptors to balance imbalanced neurotransmitters in the brain that are responsible for causing schizophrenia. This new molecule shows positive results in efficacy and a low discontinuation rate, indicating the drug can be used for acute and long-term maintenance therapy. Lax elaborates, "Reviva is a late-stage pharmaceutical company. We are focused on developing next-generation therapies for diseases of neuro targets. That's our primary focus. So, currently, we are focused on CNS, inflammatory, and cardiometabolic diseases. We use chemical genomics-driven technologies to develop new chemical entities. Currently, we have two molecules in development. One is brilaroxazine, which is also called RP5063. The second molecule is RP1208. Both molecules were discovered in-house." "