Neumora Therapeutics

Neumora Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical-stage biotechnology company. The company is headquartered in Watertown, Massachusetts and currently employs 96 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2023-09-15. The firm's therapeutic pipeline consists of seven clinical and preclinical neuroscience programs that target novel mechanisms of action for a broad range of underserved neuropsychiatric disorders and neurodegenerative diseases. Its advanced product candidate, navacaprant (NMRA-140), is a novel once-daily oral kappa opioid receptor (KOR) antagonist that is being developed for the treatment of depressive disorder (MDD). Navacaprant is being investigated in the KOASTAL pivotal Phase 3 program, evaluating navacaprant monotherapy in patients with moderate to severe MDD. The firm's next advanced product candidate is NMRA-511, which is a highly selective, novel antagonist of the vasopressin 1a receptor (V1aR) being developed for the treatment of agitation associated with dementia due to Alzheimer's disease (AD).