Prix Avenue Therapeutics Inc (ATXI)

Avenue Therapeutics, Inc. is a specialty pharmaceutical company, which engages in acquiring, licensing, and commercializing products for use in the intensive care hospital setting. The company is headquartered in Bay Harbor Islands, Florida and currently employs 2 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2017-06-27. The firm is focused on the development and commercialization of therapies for the treatment of neurologic diseases. Its product candidate, intravenous tramadol (IV tramadol) is a novel therapy in development in the United States for managing post-operative pain as an alternative to conventional narcotics. The drug is designed to use a dual mechanism of action to block a patient’s pain signal with reduced abuse potential. This unique mechanism of action includes an opioid agonist and an inhibitor of norepinephrine and serotonin re-uptake.