Industry: Consumer Durables – Specialty Chemicals
Stock Symbol: CERE – NASDAQ
Animal Usage: Animal Testing
Cerevel Therapeutics Holdings Inc. is on the Cruelty Free Investing use of animals list because they conduct pre-clinical studies of their drugs on animals to assess a product’s safety profile.
Supporting Evidence:
The company stated in the following report that they exploit animals for product testing.
“CVL-354 is a high potency KOR antagonist, or KORA, and has 30-fold selectivity for KOR over the mu opioid receptor, or MOR. Notably, CVL-354 has no agonist activity at the MOR. Furthermore, CVL-354 has shown robust activity in preclinical animal models.” (Page 158) Read the full document
Cerevel Therapeutics Holdings, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company. The Company combines an understanding of disease-related biology and neurocircuitry of the brain with chemistry and central nervous system (CNS), receptor pharmacology to discover and design new therapies.
Company Website: https://www.cerevel.com