Safinamide

Safinamide (INN; brand name Xadago, former developmental code name EMD-1195686) is a drug indicated for the treatment of Parkinson's disease with multiple methods of action. In 2007, a Phase III clinical trial was started. It was scheduled to run until 2011. The compound was originally discovered at Farmitalia-Carlo Erba, first published in 1998 and developed by Newron Pharmaceuticals, which sold the rights to Merck-Serono in 2006. In October 2011 Merck-Serono announced that they would give all rights to develop the compound back to Newron.