We are a biotechnology company dedicated to accelerating patient access to evidence-based innovation in mental health.
−Removed: We are motivated by the need to find better ways to help and empower people suffering with mental health challenges who are not helped by existing treatments, and are pioneering the development of a new model of psilocybin treatment, in which our investigational COMP360 psilocybin is administered in conjunction with psychological support, which we refer to as COMP360 psilocybin treatment.
+Added: We are motivated by the need to find better ways to help and empower people with serious mental health conditions who are not helped by existing treatments.
+Added: We are pioneering a new paradigm for treating mental health conditions focused on rapid and durable responses through the development of our investigational COMP360 psilocybin treatment, potentially a first in class treatment.
COMP360 is our proprietary psilocybin formulation that includes our pharmaceutical-grade polymorphic crystalline psilocybin, optimized for stability and purity.
−Removed: We believe that our COMP360 psilocybin treatment - combining COMP360 psilocybin with psychological support from specially trained therapists - could offer a new approach to treatment of serious mental health conditions, including treatment-resistant depression, or TRD, a subset of major depressive disorder, or MDD, post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, and anorexia nervosa .
−Removed: Our initial focus is on TRD, comprising patients who are inadequately served by the current treatment paradigm.
+Added: We believe that our COMP360 psilocybin treatment could offer a new approach to treatment of serious mental health conditions, including treatment-resistant depression, or TRD, which is a subset of major depressive disorder, or MDD, post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, and potentially many other serious mental health conditions .
+Added: Our initial focus is on TRD, comprising patients who are inadequately served by current treatment options.
In 2018, we received Breakthrough Therapy designation from the FDA for COMP360 for the treatment of TRD.
−Removed: In November 2021, we announced positive top-line results from our Phase 2b clinical trial evaluating COMP360 in conjunction with psychological support for the treatment of TRD.
−Removed: On November 3, 2022, The New England Journal of Medicine , the world’s leading peer-reviewed medical journal, published the positive results from our Phase 2b trial.
+Added: In November 2021, we announced positive top-line results from our Phase 2b clinical trial evaluating COMP360 for the treatment of TRD.
+Added: On November 3, 2022, The New England Journal of Medicine published the positive results from our Phase 2b trial.
This is the largest, randomized, controlled, double-blind psilocybin treatment clinical trial completed to date.
The objective of the Phase 2b study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of a single dose of investigational COMP360 psilocybin (25mg or 10mg), compared to 1mg, in patients with TRD.
−Removed: The results from the 233-participant trial showed a rapid and sustained response for patients receiving a single 25mg dose of COMP360 psilocybin administered with psychological support, with 29.1% of participants in remission by week 3 (p<0.002).
−Removed: The trial achieved its primary endpoint for the 25mg dose, with a 25mg dose of COMP360 demonstrating a statistically significant (p<0.001) and clinically relevant treatment difference against the 1mg dose of COMP360 in reducing depressive symptom severity after three weeks.
+Added: The trial achieved its primary endpoint for the 25mg dose, with a 25mg dose of COMP360 demonstrating a statistically significant and clinically relevant treatment difference against the 1mg dose of COMP360 in reducing depressive symptom severity after three weeks.
At the beginning of 2023, we commenced our Phase 3 program evaluating our COMP360 psilocybin treatment in TRD.
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a single dose (25mg) monotherapy compared with placebo.
−Removed: This trial is designed to replicate the treatment response seen in our Phase 2b trial (n=233).
−Removed: We expect to report top-line data in the fourth quarter of 2024.
• Pivotal trial 2 (COMP006) (n= 568):
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25mg, 10mg and 1mg.
−Removed: This trial is designed to investigate whether a second dose can increase treatment responders and whether a second dose can improve responses observed in our Phase 2b trial and to explore the potential for a meaningful treatment response from repeat administration of COMP360 10mg.
−Removed: We expect to report top-line data by mid-2025.
+Added: This trial is designed to investigate whether a second dose can increase therapeutic response.
• The primary endpoint in both pivotal trials is the change from baseline in the MADRS (Montgomery-Åsberg Depression Rating Scale) total score at week 6.
−Removed: Beyond TRD, we have ongoing Phase 2 trials in PTSD and anorexia nervosa.
−Removed: We also provide support to research institutions conducting investigator-initiated studies, or IISs, with COMP360 psilocybin in areas of serious unmet need.
−Removed: These are signal-generating studies that we believe may provide signals for new potential indications that we can explore further and may bring into our development pipeline.
−Removed: For example , the University of California San Diego School of Medicine completed an IIS of COMP360 psilocybin in anorexia nervosa and presented positive data from this study at the Society of Biological Psychiatry Annual Meeting in May 2022.
−Removed: Based on the data generated in this IIS, we decided to proceed with a Phase 2 clinical trial for anorexia nervosa.
−Removed: Additional IIS studies are underway in a number of other indications including autism, suicidal ideation and severe TRD.
−Removed: The need for innovation in mental health care is significant, given that the current treatment paradigm is ineffective for millions of people.
−Removed: Our vision is a world of mental wellbeing – a world in which mental health isn’t simply the absence of
−Removed: mental illness, but the ability to flourish.
−Removed: We want to help reduce the stigma surrounding mental health, to acknowledge that “everyone has a story,” and to create a system of care for all who are not helped by the existing system and existing therapies.
+Added: Beyond TRD, we have been exploring other indications, including PTSD.
+Added: In May 2024, we completed and announced top-line results from our open label Phase 2 study to assess the safety and tolerability of COMP360 psilocybin treatment in participants with PTSD, as a result of trauma experienced as adults.
+Added: In line with the study design, the study enrolled 22 participants, who were monitored for a 12-week period post dosing.
+Added: The study met its primary safety endpoint and available secondary efficacy endpoints.
+Added: Study observations included meaningful and sustained symptom improvement from baseline in mean CAPS-5 total score, a measure of disease severity, and in Sheehan Disability Scale (SDS) score, a measure of functional impairment in daily life.
+Added: Administration of COMP360 was well-tolerated, with a safety profile consistent with previous studies of COMP360.
+Added: Based on the data from this trial, we are in the process of designing a late-stage PTSD program.
+Added: The need for innovation in mental health care is significant, given that current treatment options are ineffective for millions of people.
+Added: Our vision is a world of mental wellbeing – a world in which mental health isn’t simply the absence of mental illness, but the ability to flourish.
+Added: We want to help reduce the stigma surrounding mental health, to acknowledge that “everyone has a story,” and to develop paradigm-changing new treatments for those who are not helped by existing treatment options.
Our mission is to accelerate patient access to evidence-based innovation in mental health.
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• Advance our Phase 3 registrational program for our investigational COMP360 psilocybin treatment for the treatment of TRD.
−Removed: In 2021, we completed a randomized, controlled Phase 2b clinical trial in 233 TRD patients, in 22 sites across North America and Europe and a Phase 2 exploratory trial in 19 TRD patients.
−Removed: We announced positive top-line results from these trials in November and December 2021.
−Removed: The results from our Phase 2b clinical trial were published in the New England Journal of Medicine in November 2022.
−Removed: We commenced our Phase 3 registrational program and expect to report top-line data from our COMP005 study in the fourth quarter of 2024 and from our COMP006 study in mid-2025.
−Removed: • Expand our investigational COMP360 psilocybin treatment into new indications.
−Removed: We believe that our investigational COMP360 psilocybin treatment may confer beneficial effects in other areas of high unmet need in mental health.
−Removed: We are conducting Phase 2 trials evaluating COMP360 psilocybin treatment in PTSD and anorexia nervosa.
−Removed: In addition, we are generating preclinical and clinical data to further our mechanistic understanding and explore the potential benefits of our COMP360 psilocybin treatment in other indications.
−Removed: We are performing some of these studies ourselves and some through collaborations with academic institutions, including through IISs.
−Removed: The outcomes of these studies will help inform which indications we may pursue.
−Removed: • Explore other compounds to address areas of unmet need.
−Removed: Our internal discovery efforts are focused on value propositions that meet unmet patient needs and ensure differentiation against our COMP360 psilocybin treatment and the broader competitive landscape.
−Removed: Ongoing research on prodrug development has led to a number of potential candidate leads being identified that we plan to continue through further research-based development.
−Removed: The outcomes of these studies will help inform which compounds and drug candidates we may pursue.
−Removed: • Maximize the reach and value of our investigational COMP360 psilocybin treatment by creating a new model for mental health care.
+Added: In 2021, we completed a randomized, controlled Phase 2b clinical trial in 233 TRD patients, at 22 sites across North America and Europe.
+Added: We announced positive top-line results from this trial in November 2021, the results of which were published in the New England Journal of Medicine in November 2022.
+Added: Based on the results from the Phase 2b trial, we advanced clinical development in TRD and our Phase 3 registrational program is ongoing.
+Added: We are nearing completion of enrollment in our first pivotal study in TRD, COMP005, and expect to report top-line 6-week data in the second quarter of 2025.
+Added: We expect to report 26-week data from our COMP006 study in the second half of 2026.
+Added: • Expand our investigational COMP360 psilocybin treatment into new indications, with our next focus on advancing a late-stage development program in PTSD.
+Added: We believe that our investigational COMP360 psilocybin treatment may offer beneficial effects in other areas of high unmet need in mental health.
+Added: Following positive Phase 2a results in May 2024 and securing additional funding in the first quarter of 2025, we are now in the process of designing a late-stage program in PTSD.
+Added: • Maximize the potential to reach patients and realize the value of our investigational COMP360 psilocybin treatment by creating a new approach to treating mental health conditions.
We retain global development and commercialization rights for our investigational COMP360 psilocybin treatment and are developing a commercial rollout plan in the event we are granted approval from regulatory authorities, working with payors to enable reimbursement and with health systems to enable broad patient access.
−Removed: We engage with the broader healthcare ecosystem to drive innovation in research in mental health and inform models for delivery for COMP360 psilocybin, including to gather evidence to optimize our therapy model, training of therapists, and prototype digital technology solutions to improve patient experience and outcomes.
−Removed: We established a Center of Excellence, with The Sheppard Pratt Institute for Advanced Diagnostics and Therapeutics, in Baltimore, Maryland and The Center for Mental Health Research and Innovation with King’s College London and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, or SLaM.
−Removed: Recently, we entered into research collaborations with Hackensack Meridian Health, a leading not-for-profit health care organization in New Jersey, and Greenbrook TMS, which operates through 130 company-operated treatment centers throughout the United States, to research and investigate models for the delivery of scalable, commercial COMP360 treatment within healthcare systems, assuming FDA approval.
−Removed: • Use digital technology to improve access to and the impact of our investigational COMP360 psilocybin treatment.
−Removed: We are exploring ways to use digital technology to make our treatment delivery model more scalable, and to improve patient experience and outcomes.
−Removed: We plan to build upon the technologies we are deploying during our clinical trials, including our myPathfinder app, which is designed to help patients prepare for their COMP360 psilocybin treatment experience, and Therapist COMPanion a web-based “shared knowledge” interactive platform to complement our face-to-face and clinical therapist training.
−Removed: We are also developing Chanterelle, our AI (which we refer to as Augmented Intelligence as well as Artificial Intelligence) and analytics solution through which we aim to generate novel insights into the predictors and drivers of therapeutic outcomes, the patient experience, and therapist performance.
−Removed: We believe this may enable us in the future to offer a personalized, preventative and predictive care model.
−Removed: The following table summarizes the status of our pipeline:
+Added: Delivering COMP360 is expected to require the ability to implement COMP360 seamlessly within a provider’s operating practice.
+Added: In order to ensure we understand implementation challenges, we have entered into agreements with several representative healthcare delivery centers such as Hackensack Meridian Health, a leading not-for-profit health care organization in New Jersey, and Greenbrook TMS (acquired by Neuronetics, Inc.
+Added: in December 2024), which operates a network of treatment centers throughout the United States.
+Added: The purpose of these agreements is to research and investigate models for the delivery of scalable, commercial COMP360 treatment within different types of healthcare delivery systems, assuming FDA approval.
+Added: We are currently focusing our efforts on progressing our Phase 3 clinical program in TRD and starting a late-stage development program in PTSD.
+Added: The following table summarizes the status of all our pipeline assets:
Investigational COMP360 Psilocybin Treatment
We are developing our investigational COMP360 psilocybin treatment for the treatment of a range of mental health conditions, with an initial focus on TRD.
−Removed: There is a large unmet need for new therapies to improve the response rate and durability of response for patients suffering with TRD.
−Removed: We believe our investigational COMP360 psilocybin treatment, if successfully developed and approved, represents a promising therapeutic option for TRD, as well as potentially for other mental health and neurological conditions, including PTSD and anorexia nervosa.
+Added: There is a large unmet need for new treatments to improve the response rate, remission rate, and durability of response for patients suffering with TRD.
+Added: We believe our investigational COMP360 psilocybin treatment, if successfully developed and approved, represents a promising therapeutic option for TRD, as well as potentially for other mental health and neurological conditions, including PTSD.
TRD is a subset of MDD.
MDD is a condition characterized by a persistent feeling of sadness and heightened negative emotions.
−Removed: It is considered a unipolar condition, suggesting a distinction between MDD and bipolar depression, the latter of which is often associated with an emotional state fluctuating between depression and hypomania or mania.
−Removed: MDD is a chronic, relapsing, recurring and serious mental health condition associated with high mortality rates, morbidity and diminished quality of life.
−Removed: The World Health Organization, or WHO, estimates as of 2023 that approximately 280 million people worldwide are suffering with MDD.
−Removed: Due to the limitations of existing treatments, nearly one-third of those suffering with MDD are not adequately helped after two or more existing depression treatments.
+Added: It is considered a unipolar condition, which is a distinction between MDD and bipolar depression, the latter of which is often associated with an emotional state fluctuating between depression and hypomania or mania.
+Added: MDD is a chronic recurring and serious mental health condition associated with high mortality rates, morbidity and diminished quality of life.
+Added: The World Health Organization estimates as of 2023 that approximately 280 million people worldwide are suffering with MDD.
+Added: The National Institute of Mental Health estimates as of 2021 that MDD affects approximately 21 million adults in the U.S.
+Added: It is estimated that approximately 10 million adults with MDD in the U.S.
+Added: are treated with medication and that approximately 1/3 of these medication-treated MDD patients, or approximately 3 million patients, are considered to have TRD.
+Added: Due to the limitations of existing treatments, approximately one-third of adults with MDD will not respond to oral antidepressants and are considered to have TRD.
+Added: TRD is defined as inadequate response to two oral medications.
This condition is referred to as TRD.
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Patients suffering with depression are treated through a variety of approaches, each of which can have significant shortcomings in certain subsets of patients.
−Removed: Most pharmacotherapies for depression employ the same mechanism of action, targeting the modulation of the brain’s neurotransmitter monoamine levels, and have exhibited limited efficacy in a significant portion of patients and can result in high relapse rates.
−Removed: There are only two pharmacotherapies specifically approved for TRD in the US:
−Removed: esketamine, and a combination of olanzapine (an atypical antipsychotic) and fluoxetine (a selective serotonergic reuptake inhibitor).
+Added: Most pharmacotherapies for depression target the modulation of the brain’s monoamine receptor system, and have exhibited limited efficacy in a significant portion of patients and can result in high relapse rates.
+Added: There are only two medicines approved by the FDA for TRD in the US:
+Added: esketamine and the fixed combination of olanzapine/fluoxetine (fluoxetine a selective serotonergic reuptake inhibitor).
Esketamine was approved in 2019 by the FDA.
−Removed: Mixed efficacy and limited durability were observed in clinical trials, as well as potential side effects, including dissociation and cognitive impairment.
−Removed: The olanzapine-fluoxetine combination has also shown mixed efficacy and can commonly lead to side effects such as dizziness, drowsiness and weight gain.
−Removed: In addition to pharmacotherapies, various forms of somatic intervention are also used, although these treatments tend to be invasive and/or onerous, and there is limited data supporting their long-term benefit.
+Added: In addition to pharmacotherapies, various forms of somatic intervention are also used, although these treatments tend to be
+Added: invasive and/or onerous, and there is limited data supporting their long-term benefit.
Psychotherapy is another common treatment approach, but it requires a significant time commitment and is subject to large variability in availability and administration.
−Removed: Despite the range of treatments and therapies currently available for depression, patients suffering with TRD
−Removed: continue to be underserved, prolonging a significant health, social and economic burden.
+Added: Despite the range of treatments and therapies currently available for depression, patients suffering with TRD continue to be underserved, prolonging a significant health, social and economic burden.
We believe patients suffering with TRD need a paradigm-shifting treatment that can deliver rapid and sustained relief of their depression.
−Removed: The following table, which is based on data from the Star*D trial conducted by the National Institute of Mental Health in 2006, indicates the worldwide estimated patient populations suffering with new onset MDD, persistent MDD and TRD, and the primary treatment options available.
−Removed: Treatment pathway stage New onset depression
−Removed: Major depressive disorder (MDD) Persistent depression
−Removed: Major depressive disorder (MDD) Treatment-resistant depression (TRD)
−Removed: Line of therapy First line Second line Third line +
−Removed: Patients (worldwide) 320 million 200 million 100 million
−Removed: (~33% of total)
−Removed: Available treatments • Antidepressants
−Removed: • Psychological interventions eg, CBT*
−Removed: • Antidepressants
−Removed: • Antidepressant combinations
−Removed: • Psychological interventions
−Removed: • Antidepressants
−Removed: • Augmentation therapy (antidepressants, mood stabilizers, anticonvulsants, atypical antipsychotics.
−Removed: • Somatic therapy (rTMS*, tDCS*, ECT*, DBS*)
−Removed: • High-intensity psychological interventions
−Removed: % relapse 60-70% 50-75% 80-90%
−Removed: _____________
−Removed: * CBT = cognitive behavioral therapy;
−Removed: rTMS = repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation;
−Removed: tDCS=transcranial direct current stimulation;
−Removed: ECT=electroconvulsive therapy;
−Removed: DBS=deep brain stimulation.
−Removed: Table adapted from Rush, A.
−Removed: J., Trivedi, M.
−Removed: H., Wisniewski, S.
−Removed: R., Nierenberg, A.
−Removed: A., Stewart, J.
−Removed: W., Warden, D., ...
−Removed: Acute and longer-term outcomes in depressed outpatients requiring one or several treatment steps:
−Removed: a STAR* D report.
−Removed: American Journal of Psychiatry, 163(11), 1905-1917.
Limitations of Existing Therapies for Depression
Because depression has biological, social, psychological, environmental, genetic, and stress-related determinants, many of which co-occur, treatment options are wide-ranging and often combined.
−Removed: Current pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments, such as antidepressants and psychotherapy, respectively, are well-established and efficacious for a subset of MDD patients.
−Removed: However, many patients experience relapses.
−Removed: Clinicians lack high-quality evidence and often rely on a trial-and-error approach, course correcting as patients experience these relapses or difficult side effects.
+Added: Current pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments, such as antidepressants and psychotherapy, are well-established and efficacious for a subset of MDD patients.
+Added: However, many patients fail to experience any benefit or have only a partial response and often relapse.
+Added: Clinicians often rely on a trial-and-error approach, course correcting as patients experience these relapses or difficult side effects.
Experts are beginning to recommend a shift to more multi-modal treatments where different types of therapy are delivered concomitantly (i.e., a mix of pharmacotherapy, psychological/behavioral, and device interventions).
−Removed: Patients suffering with TRD are treated through a variety of approaches, each of which is associated with significant shortcomings.
−Removed: Consequently, there remains a need for a fast-acting, tolerable treatment that provides a durable response.
−Removed: Despite the condition’s largely heterogeneous nature, most pharmacotherapies for depression use the same mechanism of action, targeting the modulation of the brain’s neurotransmitter monoamine levels.
−Removed: As evidenced by the low response and high relapse rates, these treatments are not effective for a large number of patients.
−Removed: Various forms of somatic intervention are also used, although there is limited data supporting their long-term benefit.
−Removed: Esketamine, a TRD therapy, demonstrated mixed efficacy in its pivotal clinical trials, with rapid relapse rates even with adjunctive antidepressants and protracted withdrawal reactions.
+Added: Patients suffering with TRD are currently treated through a variety of approaches, each of which is associated with significant shortcomings.
+Added: Consequently, there remains a need for a fast-acting, tolerable treatment that provides a durable response in this patient population.
+Added: Despite the condition’s largely heterogeneous nature, most pharmacotherapies for depression use the same mechanism of action, targeting the brain’s various monoaminergic neurotransmitters.
+Added: As evidenced by low response and high relapse rates, currently approved treatments are not effective for a large number of patients.
We believe currently available options do not adequately meet the needs of patients suffering with TRD and there is a significant need for a new therapeutic approach.
−Removed: The following table includes representative ranges and approximate costs in the U.S.
−Removed: market for existing treatments of depression as well as their methods of delivery.
−Removed: Therapy Route Frequency and duration Strategy ¹
−Removed: Reimbursement ²
−Removed: Approximate annual cost per patient ³
−Removed: Antidepressants:
−Removed: SSRI/SNRI* Oral 1/day, chronic Mono/
−Removed: Adjunctive therapy Broad $12 - $8,300
−Removed: Atypical antipsychotics Oral 1/day - chronic Adjunctive therapy Broad $55 - $20,700
−Removed: CBT Face-to-face or online 10-20 sessions, 3-4 months Mono/ Adjunctive therapy Broad Averaging $1,000
−Removed: Esketamine Intranasal 25 - 50 sessions/year, under supervision of a healthcare professional
−Removed: Adjunctive therapy Limited $33,000 - $45,000
−Removed: Ketamine** Intravenous 25 - 30 administrations
−Removed: Adjunctive therapy No $2,500 - $5,000
−Removed: rTMS Magnetic brain stimulation without anesthesia 5 sessions/ week, 6 - 7 weeks (30 - 35 sessions)
−Removed: Mono/Adjunctive therapy Limited $6,000 - $12,000
−Removed: ECT Electric brain stimulation under anesthesia 3 sessions/ week, 4+ weeks Mono/Adjunctive therapy Limited $15,000 - $30,000
−Removed: VNS Electric pulses sent to the brain Duration varies from patient to patient – stimulator must first be implanted and given at a starting low dose every 5 minutes from day to night Mono/Adjunctive therapy Limited $40,000 - $45,000 for surgical implementation (excluding costs of post-operative device adjustments)
−Removed: DBS Electrical impulses to the brain through implanted electrodes 3-6 hour operations;
−Removed: follow up visits Mono/Adjunctive therapy Limited $200,000 - $250,000 for surgical implementation (excluding costs of battery replacements required every 12-24 months costing ~$95,000 for hardware replacement and surgery)
−Removed: _____________
−Removed: established common pharmacotherapies for depression;
−Removed: common psychotherapy for depression;
−Removed: novel pharmacotherapies for depression;
−Removed: somatic therapies for depression
−Removed: * SSRI = selective serotonergic reuptake inhibitor;
−Removed: SNRI =serotonergic norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor;
−Removed: ** Ketamine is prescribed off-label and is not approved for the treatment of depression
−Removed: Based on a year of treatment, 150mg/day, augmentation with fluoxetine for U.S.
−Removed: or citalopram for UK 2.
−Removed: Government reimbursement or private insurance coverage;
−Removed: Assumes one treatment course over the year, direct treatment cost only (not related provider cost or total healthcare costs) and where applicable, estimated cost range includes branded and generic treatments.
Pharmacotherapies
There are five main categories of antidepressants available on the market.
−Removed: These are selective serotonergic reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, and serotonergic norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors, or SNRIs, atypical antidepressants, monoamine
−Removed: oxidase inhibitors, or MAOIs, and tricyclic antidepressants, or TCAs.
+Added: These are selective serotonergic reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, and serotonergic norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors, or SNRIs, atypical antidepressants, monoamine oxidase inhibitors, or MAOIs, and tricyclic antidepressants, or TCAs.
These are frequently used in first- and second-line treatment of depression and can also be used after this point.
−Removed: Studies have shown that approximately 50% of patients are not helped by their initial antidepressant treatment.
−Removed: This figure rises to as high as 70% for subsequent treatments.
−Removed: Currently approved antidepressants have significant limitations, including delayed onset of action, poor therapy adherence rates and various side effects.
−Removed: The onset of action for the most commonly used antidepressants is typically between two and three weeks.
−Removed: Adherence levels are relatively low, with approximately 50% of individuals in primary and psychiatric care not adhering to their prescribed antidepressant medication.
+Added: The Star*D trial conducted by the National Institute of Mental Health in 2006 indicates that only approximately 37% of patients achieve remission with their initial antidepressant treatment and once a patient progresses to third and fourth line, their remission rates drop to 14% and 13% respectively.
+Added: Currently approved antidepressants have significant limitations, including delayed onset of action, poor therapy adherence rates and substantial side effects.
+Added: The onset of action for the most commonly used antidepressants is typically between six and eight weeks.
+Added: Adherence levels are low, with average adherence rates for oral anti-depressant medications over twelve months being approximately 25%.
There is limited evidence to effectively guide clinical decisions following non-response or partial response to first-line antidepressant medications.
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Partial response or lack of response thereafter is recommended to be addressed by combining antidepressants from different pharmacological classes, or augmenting with an alternative medication, primarily with atypical antipsychotics, but also mood stabilizers, anticonvulsants, thyroid hormones and stimulants, and N-methyl-D-asparate, or NMDA, antagonists.
−Removed: Antipsychotics, such as olanzapine, quetiapine and aripiprazole are typically used as adjunctive therapies when there is a lack of notable efficacy with an antidepressant.
+Added: Antipsychotics, such as olanzapine, quetiapine, cariprazine and aripiprazole are routinely used as adjunctive therapies when there is a lack of notable efficacy with an antidepressant.
There is an approved combination of olanzapine and fluoxetine (an SSRI) for TRD.
However, using antidepressants and antipsychotics together can have serious side effects, such as weight gain, other metabolic complications, sedation, extrapyramidal side effects (movement disorders), and QTc prolongation, which means the ventricles of the heart take longer than usual to recharge between beats.
−Removed: Psychotherapies (Including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT)
−Removed: Psychotherapy is a form of talk therapy often recommended as first-line treatment in mild depression and often used as adjunctive therapy for MDD patients.
−Removed: Two frequently used psychotherapies for depression are CBT and interpersonal therapy, or IPT.
−Removed: CBT focuses on changing negative thought and behavior patterns.
−Removed: IPT also looks at negative thoughts and behaviors, but only as they apply to interpersonal relationships and social functioning.
−Removed: The incremental efficacy of psychotherapy in more severe cases and in later lines of treatment remains questionable.
−Removed: Psychotherapeutic approaches can be effective for many individuals but require a significant time commitment from patients and are subject to variability in their availability and delivery.
Esketamine/Ketamine
−Removed: Ketamine is an NMDA receptor antagonist that has been used for several decades in sedation, anesthesia and chronic pain.
−Removed: The S-enantiomer of ketamine, esketamine, is administered intranasally as a spray and has been approved by the FDA to treat TRD (2019) and depressive symptoms in adults with MDD with acute suicidal ideation or behavior (2020).
−Removed: There are mixed efficacy results associated with the use of esketamine.
−Removed: Ketamine and esketamine require multiple administration sessions and are associated with a high abuse potential.
−Removed: Esketamine treatments typically need to be frequently administered, in a controlled environment under medical supervision.
+Added: Ketamine is an NMDA receptor antagonist that has been approved by the FDA for use for several decades in sedation and anesthesia.
+Added: The S-enantiomer of ketamine, esketamine, is administered intranasally as a spray and has been approved by the FDA to treat TRD in conjunction with an oral antidepressant (2019), to treat depressive symptoms in adults with MDD with acute suicidal ideation or behavior (2020) and as a monotherapy to treat patients with TRD (2025).
+Added: Ketamine and esketamine require multiple administration sessions.
+Added: Both are DEA Schedule III products indicating potential for abuse.
+Added: There are mixed efficacy results associated with the use of esketamine and esketamine treatments require frequent administration in a
+Added: controlled environment under medical supervision.
This frequency makes administration costly for payors and burdensome for patients.
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These therapies are generally administered in inpatient settings.
−Removed: Somatic and device-related interventions like ECT and VNS are associated with significant adverse reactions and interventional concerns, such as use of general anesthesia and memory loss in the case of ECT, and surgical intervention and infection risk with VNS implantation.
−Removed: Limitations of rTMS include inadvertent seizures, pain, face twitching and application discomfort.
−Removed: Similarly, DBS has the potential to cause pain and seizures as well as a high risk of infection due to the invasiveness of the surgical procedure.
+Added: Somatic and device-related interventions like ECT and VNS are associated with significant adverse reactions and interventional risks, such as use of general anesthesia and memory loss in the case of ECT, and surgical intervention and infection risk with VNS implantation.
+Added: Limitations of rTMS include seizures, pain, face twitching and application discomfort.
+Added: Similarly, DBS has the potential to cause pain and seizures.
These treatments are typically reserved for patients who have not been helped by other treatments, and are characterized as high-cost treatment options with reimbursement limited for a subset of these therapies.
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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
−Removed: PTSD is a serious mental health condition that can impact quality of life and lead to diminished cognitive and psychosocial functioning, fractured relationships, inability to maintain employment, substance abuse, high healthcare utilization costs, increased depression, and suicide risk.
+Added: Like TRD, PTSD is a heterogeneous syndrome that can impact quality of life and lead to diminished cognitive and psychosocial functioning, fractured relationships, inability to maintain employment, substance abuse, high healthcare utilization costs, increased depression, and suicide risk.
+Added: In some people, PTSD can be difficult to distinguish from anxiety and/or depression.
PTSD can occur in people who have experienced or witnessed a traumatic event, such as a natural disaster, serious accident, war or rape.
−Removed: People who experience PTSD may relive their traumatic experience(s) through nightmares and flashbacks, have difficulty sleeping, and feel detached or estranged.
+Added: People who experience PTSD may relive their traumatic experience(s) through nightmares and flashbacks, have difficulty sleeping, experience intrusive thoughts and feel detached or estranged.
Some people with PTSD experience symptoms immediately after the event, while for others symptoms may appear years later.
−Removed: It is estimated that approximately 311 million people will experience PTSD at some point during their lives.
+Added: It is estimated that approximately 311 million people globally will experience PTSD at some point during their lives.
Only 20 -30% of patients treated with currently approved pharmacological interventions for PTSD will reach full remission.
−Removed: Anorexia Nervosa
−Removed: Anorexia nervosa is a serious mental health condition characterized by severe restriction of calorie intake and a preoccupation with weight and shape.
−Removed: People with anorexia nervosa generally restrict their caloric intake, types of food they eat, and might engage in purging behaviors, such as strenuous exercise, vomiting, and laxatives misuse.
−Removed: It carries the highest mortality rate of all psychiatric disorders.
−Removed: This high mortality rate is explained in part by the physical complications (muscle and bone problems, such as osteoporosis;
−Removed: damage to the brain leading to seizures and memory issues;
−Removed: and heart problems including heart failure) and in part by an increased rate of suicide;
−Removed: approximately 20% of deaths in anorexia nervosa are thought to result from suicide.
−Removed: Approximately 3.9 million people globally suffer from anorexia nervosa as of 2019;
−Removed: it has a lifetime prevalence of approximately 4% in females.
−Removed: There are no pharmacological treatments approved to treat anorexia nervosa and psychological treatments have relapse rates as high as 52%.
+Added: In the U.S., approximately 13 million people suffer from PTSD every year.
+Added: PTSD disproportionately affects certain demographics including women, people from different racial and ethnic backgrounds and military veterans.
+Added: The total economic burden for PTSD in the US surpassed $232.2 billion in 2018, or $19,630 per individual with PTSD.
Psilocybin Therapy
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There is an accumulating body of evidence that psilocybin may have beneficial effects on depression and other mental health conditions.
−Removed: We believe the benefits of psilocybin are largely derived from its mechanism of action.
+Added: We believe that there are multiple mechanisms of action for psilocybin that could provide clinical benefit.
As shown in the graphic below, by activating a distinct set of receptors in brain areas critical to mood and cognition, psilocybin acts to induce a range of downstream effects that may have important, sustained effects on brain function.
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Stimulation of 5-HT 2A receptors results in downstream cascades via G-protein signaling.
−Removed: Altered extracellular release of dopamine lead s to enhanced positive mood .
+Added: Simultaneous effects involving multiple neurotransmitters and neuronal activation/signaling.
Down-regulation of the default mode network, or DMN, and de-synchronization of cortical activity as well as the emergence of new patterns of functional connectivity across the brain.
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In particular, many of the prominent acute effects of psilocybin, such as changes in emotion and cognition, are thought to be mediated by 5-HT 2A receptor stimulation, an interpretation that is supported by the fact that blocking the 5-HT 2A receptor prevents the psychedelic effects of psilocybin in humans.
−Removed: This mechanism of 5-HT 2A receptor stimulation is also implicated as a possible component of the antidepressant action of SSRIs, although these operate by inhibiting reuptake of serotonin by presynaptic neurons.
+Added: This mechanism of 5-HT 2A receptor stimulation is also implicated as a possible component of the antidepressant action of SSRIs, although these are thought to operate by inhibiting reuptake of serotonin by presynaptic neurons.
In contrast, psilocin is believed to initiate an antidepressant effect by directly activating this receptor.
−Removed: The relevance of 5-HT 2A receptors in modulating depressive symptoms may also be supported by the fact that these receptors are abundantly expressed in multiple areas of the brain that have important roles in regulating cognitive and emotional processing.
−Removed: For instance, 5-HT 2A receptors are predominantly expressed in cortical pyramidal neurons, the most abundant type of neuron found in the human cerebral cortex, and thus may be implicated in executive function.
−Removed: Additionally, 5-HT 2A receptors are expressed in other key regions of the brain, like the hippocampus and nucleus accumbens, which are associated with crucial biological functions like memory and reward processing, respectively.
+Added: The relevance of 5-HT 2A receptors in modulating depressive symptoms may is supported by the abundant expression of these receptors in areas of the brain that have important roles in regulating cognitive and emotional processing.
+Added: Additionally, 5-HT 2A receptors are expressed in other key regions of the brain, like the hippocampus and nucleus accumbens, which are associated with functions like memory and reward processing, respectively.
Cellular Effects:
Activation of Downstream Signaling Cascades
−Removed: Activation of 5-HT 2A receptors by agonist ligands such as psilocin can modulate a number of downstream signaling cascades to alter the structure and function of neurons, which are the primary signaling components of the CNS.
−Removed: The 5-HT 2A receptor is a G-protein coupled receptor, which means that it predominantly relays signals through a family of proteins called G-proteins.
+Added: Activation of 5-HT 2A receptors by agonist ligands such as psilocin can modulate a number of downstream signaling cascades to alter the structure and function of neurons, which are important signaling components of the CNS.
+Added: receptor is a G-protein coupled receptor, which means that it predominantly relays signals through a family of proteins called G-proteins.
Specifically, the main signaling cascade downstream of 5-HT 2A receptors occurs via the Gα q/11 protein and leads to increased intracellular calcium release within the cell.
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The activation of neurons, or depolarization, corresponds to positive ions flowing into these cells, which ultimately drives signal transmission and communication between neurons.
−Removed: Neuroplasticity refers to the ability of the nervous system to reorganize its structure, function, and connections.
+Added: Neuroplasticity refers to the ability of the nervous system to reorganize its structure and connections leading to new or adapted functions.
This can involve the generation of new neurons, changes in neuron morphology and connectivity, and neurobiochemical changes in receptor and neurotransmitter levels.
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The fact that EGR-1 and EGR-2 appear to be induced specifically by psychedelic compounds suggests that these genes could be relevant to the acute and sustained effects of these drugs.
−Removed: Alterations in neurotransmitter release are another local circuit-level consequence of psilocin that may be relevant to its psychoactive and mood effects.
−Removed: Specifically, evidence from rodent studies suggests that psilocybin may alter extracellular release of serotonin and dopamine in brain areas such as the prefrontal cortex .
−Removed: By virtue of the extracellular neurotransmitter release changes in certain brain areas, which have established roles in, for example, executive function, psilocybin may drive positive mood effects.
Systemic Effects:
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These brain network alterations may indicate the emergence of novel patterns of connectivity upon decoupling of the DMN and could lead to longer-term changes, such as altered emotional processing, that may ultimately affect behavior.
−Removed: Investigational COMP360 Psilocybin Treatment Clinical Development Programs
+Added: Investigational COMP360 Psilocybin Clinical Development Programs
COMP360 is our proprietary psilocybin formulation that includes our pharmaceutical-grade polymorphic crystalline psilocybin, optimized for stability and purity.
−Removed: Our investigational COMP360 psilocybin treatment comprises administration of our COMP360 with psychological support from specially trained therapists with specific professional and educational qualifications.
−Removed: We are conducting clinical trials in TRD, PTSD and anorexia.
−Removed: COMP360 Psilocybin Treatment Protocol
−Removed: Our psilocybin treatment comprises administration of COMP360 with psychological support from specially trained therapists.
−Removed: Psychological support is designed to facilitate patient safety and optimal therapeutic outcomes.
−Removed: Our psychological support model is manualized and standardized for consistent delivery across all our trial sites.
−Removed: Our model is delivered over three different phases:
−Removed: preparation, the COMP360 administration session, and integration.
−Removed: Our psilocybin treatment takes place over a period of several weeks, and comprises:
+Added: We have conducted and/or are conducting clinical development programs in TRD, PTSD and anorexia nervosa.
+Added: In our clinical trials, health care professionals, who possess an active license in good professional standing and have the relevant education, experience and training, are engaged and adhere to the below protocols, which are designed to monitor and safeguard clinical trial participants during their psychedelic experience.
+Added: We have a manualized and standardized process to train healthcare professionals for consistent delivery across all our trial sites.
+Added: An outline of the support model used in our clinical trials and our training program was published in January 2025 in the peer-reviewed American Journal of Psychiatry.
+Added: Our trial protocols provide that such support is delivered over three different phases:
+Added: preparation, the COMP360 administration session, and post-administration follow-up (integration).
• Preparation:
−Removed: The objectives of the preparation sessions are to establish a therapeutic alliance between the patient and therapist, and to demonstrate and practice the skills of self-directed inquiry and experiential processing, which we believe are critical for embracing the psychedelic experience in the psilocybin administration session.
+Added: The objectives of the preparation sessions are to establish a therapeutic alliance between the patient and healthcare professional, and to demonstrate and practice the skills of self-directed inquiry and experiential processing, which we believe are critical for embracing the psychedelic experience in the psilocybin administration session.
We have created an online preparation platform and MyPathfinder app for patients where they can learn more about what to expect from the experience and how to prepare for it.
−Removed: • Psilocybin administration:
−Removed: A psilocybin administration session lasts approximately six to eight hours and a therapist and assisting therapist are present throughout the session.
−Removed: The therapist’s goal during the session is to establish psychological safety, minimizing anxiety and encouraging openness to all emerging experiences.
−Removed: The session takes place in a room designed to be ambient, comfortable and calming.
−Removed: Patients wear eyeshades to help them focus internally, lie on a bed, and listen to a carefully curated music playlist through a high-quality sound system and earphones.
+Added: • COMP360 administration:
+Added: A COMP360 administration session lasts approximately six to eight hours and at least one healthcare professional is present throughout the session to monitor and safeguard participants in our clinical trials.
+Added: The healthcare professional’s goal during the session is to establish psychological safety, minimize anxiety and encourage openness to all emerging experiences.
+Added: The session takes place in a room designed to have a comfortable and calming ambience.
+Added: Patients wear eye shades to help them focus internally, lie on a bed, and listen to a carefully curated music playlist through a high-quality sound system and earphones.
After the acute effects of psilocybin subside, patients are evaluated for safety and discharged.
−Removed: • Post-administration integration:
−Removed: The objectives of integration sessions are to help patients process the range of emotional and physical experiences facilitated by the psilocybin session and to generate insights that can lead to cognitive and behavioral changes.
−Removed: We believe psilocybin treatment can give patients a sense of agency, whereby they feel separate from their symptoms and empowered to make changes in their lives.
−Removed: Therapists in our clinical trials are required to have an active unrestricted professional license to practice as a clinical psychologist, psychiatrist, social worker or mental health counselor.
−Removed: Therapists must also meet the required training and credentialing standards to practice psychotherapy in their region.
−Removed: Those who have active, unrestricted professional licenses as mental health nurses or any other mental health professional may be eligible to practice as a therapist in our clinical trials, subject to fulfilling criteria around equivalent clinical experience and psychotherapy training as the professionals listed above.
−Removed: Our method of psychological support is based on our current understanding of psilocybin’s potential to generate new insights and perspectives leading to reduced rigidity in thinking.
−Removed: This modification of thought patterns can be uncomfortable or anxiety-provoking.
−Removed: Therapists refrain from intervening with the patient’s experience, unless required for safety reasons.
−Removed: Such an approach differs from some forms of psychotherapy which can be more directive and interventional.
−Removed: Our therapist training program sets out a formal and scalable methodology for psychological support delivered during the psilocybin treatment.
−Removed: It will continue to evolve as we progress COMP360 psilocybin treatment through clinical trials, but this manualized approach to the training program is an important first step in reducing variation in psychological support and setting out a framework for training and evaluation of this support.
−Removed: Details of the program were published in February 2021 in the peer-reviewed journal Frontiers in Psychiatry.
+Added: • Post-administration follow-up (integration):
+Added: The objectives of the follow-up sessions are to help patients process the range of emotional and physical experiences facilitated by the psychedelic experience and to integrate any new insights that can lead to cognitive and behavioral changes.
+Added: We believe COMP360 psilocybin can give patients a sense of agency, whereby they feel separate from their symptoms and empowered to make changes in their lives.
+Added: The methods used in our clinical trials are based on our current understanding of psilocybin’s potential to disrupt dysfunctional neural pathways, to allow patients to generate new insights and perspectives leading to reduced negativity or rigidity in thinking.
+Added: This rapid modification of thought patterns can be uncomfortable or anxiety-provoking.
+Added: In our clinical trials, healthcare professionals refrain from intervening with the patient’s experience, unless required for safety reasons.
Phase 2b Trial of Our COMP360 Psilocybin Treatment in TRD
−Removed: In 2021, we completed a Phase 2b international multi-site, randomized, controlled, double-blind, dose-finding clinical trial to assess the safety and efficacy of active doses of COMP360 (10mg or 25mg) compared with 1mg COMP360, administered with psychological support, in 233 patients suffering with TRD, across 22 trial sites in 10 countries in North America and Europe.
−Removed: In November 2022, The New England Journal of Medicine , the world’s leading peer-reviewed medical journal, published the positive results from our Phase 2b trial of COMP360 psilocybin treatment for TRD.
−Removed: Patients who are on serotonergic medications were expected to taper off their medicine at least two weeks prior to the baseline (Day -1) visit.
−Removed: Prior to administration, patients received at least one, and up to three, preparatory sessions with an assigned therapist, in order to be informed and prepared for the COMP360 psilocybin session.
−Removed: During the COMP360 psilocybin session, a single dose of COMP360 was administered to patients.
−Removed: The objective was to provide a safe and supportive environment during the session.
−Removed: Patients received two post-administration integration sessions with their therapists in which the psychedelic experience was discussed.
−Removed: Patients were followed up for 12 weeks, with a visit the day after administration followed by an additional six visits, weekly for the first three weeks, and every three weeks for the remaining nine weeks.
+Added: In 2021, we completed a Phase 2b international multi-site, randomized, controlled, double-blind, dose-finding clinical trial to assess the safety and efficacy of active doses of COMP360 (10mg or 25mg) compared with 1mg COMP360 in 233 patients suffering with TRD, across 22 trial sites in 10 countries in North America and Europe.
+Added: In November 2022, The New England Journal of Medicine published the positive results from our Phase 2b trial of COMP360 psilocybin treatment for TRD.
+Added: Participants who were on serotonergic medications were required to taper off their medicine at least two weeks prior to the baseline (Day -1) visit.
+Added: Prior to administration, participants received at least one, and up to three, preparatory sessions with an assigned healthcare professional, in order to be informed and prepared for the COMP360 psilocybin session.
+Added: During the COMP360 psilocybin session, a single dose of COMP360 was administered to participants.
+Added: The objective was to provide a
+Added: safe and supportive environment during the session.
+Added: Participants received two post-administration follow-up (integration) sessions with their healthcare professionals in which the psychedelic experience was discussed.
+Added: Participants were followed for up to 12 weeks, with a visit the day after administration followed by weekly visits for the first three weeks, and visits every three weeks for the remaining nine weeks.
Primary, secondary and exploratory endpoints
The primary endpoint of this trial was the change in the MADRS total score from baseline to week 3.
−Removed: MADRS is assessed by independent raters in native language and is a widely accepted assessment of mood disorders.
+Added: MADRS, as assessed by independent raters in native language, is a widely accepted assessment of mood disorders.
This variable was also being analyzed for change from baseline to Day 2, weeks 1, 6, 9 and 12.
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• The proportion of participants who had a sustained response at week 12.
−Removed: Sustained response was defined as the proportion of patients fulfilling response criteria at any visit up to and including week 3, that also fulfills response criteria at all subsequent visits up to and including week 12;
+Added: Sustained response was defined as the proportion of participants fulfilling response criteria at any visit up to and including week 3, that also fulfills response criteria at all subsequent visits up to and including week 12;
• Time to event measures:
including restarting of antidepressant medication for any reason, suicidality, hospitalization for depression, and relapse from a previous response to COMP360 psilocybin treatment.
−Removed: Safety and tolerability of COMP360 in patients suffering with TRD was assessed based on AEs, vital signs, clinical laboratory assessments, ECG findings and suicidal ideation/behavior (measured using the Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale, or C-SSRS score, at all visits).
+Added: The safety and tolerability of COMP360 in study participants was assessed based on AEs, vital signs, clinical laboratory assessments, ECG findings and suicidal ideation/behavior (measured using the Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale, or C-SSRS score, at all visits).
The trial also assessed exploratory endpoints including, but not limited to, quality of life (EQ-5D-3L), functional impairment (Sheehan Disability Scale, SDS), psychosocial functioning (Work and Social Adjustment scale, WSAS), cognition (Digit Symbol Substitution Test, DSST), anxiety (Generalized anxiety disorder, GAD-7), and self-reported depression severity (QIDS-SR-16).
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We recruited a total of 233 adult patients with TRD into the trial.
−Removed: We define TRD patients as those who meet Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5 th Edition, or DSM-5, diagnostic criteria for a single or recurrent episode of MDD without psychotic features, who have not responded to an adequate dose and duration of two, three, or four pharmacological treatments for the current episode of depression.
+Added: We define patients with TRD as those who meet Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5 th Edition, or DSM-5, diagnostic criteria for a single or recurrent episode of MDD without psychotic features, who have not responded to an adequate dose and duration of two, three, or four pharmacological treatments for the current episode of depression.
Clinical findings
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MADRS = Montgomery-Åsberg Depression Rating Scale
−Removed: At week 3, 36.7% (29 patients) in the 25mg group were responders (defined as a ≥50% decrease in MADRS total score from baseline), compared with 17.7% (14 patients) in the 1mg group.
−Removed: Furthermore, 29.1% (23 patients) in the 25mg group were in remission (defined as a MADRS total score ≤10) at week 3, compared with 7.6% (6 patients) in the 1mg group.
−Removed: week 12, 20.3% (16 patients) in the 25mg group were sustained responders (defined as meeting the MADRS response criteria at week 3 and week 12, and at least at one visit out of week 6 and week 9) compared with 10.1% (8 patients) in the 1mg group.
+Added: At week 3, 36.7% (29 patients) in the 25mg group were classified as responders (defined as a ≥50% decrease in MADRS total score from baseline), compared with 17.7% (14 patients) in the 1mg group.
+Added: Furthermore, 29.1% (23 patients) in the 25mg group were deemed to be in remission (defined as a MADRS total score ≤10) at week 3, compared with 7.6% (6 patients) in the 1mg group.
+Added: At week 12, 20.3% (16 patients) in the 25mg group were sustained responders (defined as meeting the MADRS response criteria at week 3 and week 12, and at least at one visit out of week 6 and week 9) compared with 10.1% (8 patients) in the 1mg group.
MADRS response and remission rates
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Patients meeting the MADRS response criteria at any visit up to and including week 3 and at all subsequent visits up to and including at week 12, and who did not start any new treatments for depression.
−Removed: As well as looking at clinician-rated depression severity on the MADRS, the trial explored other aspects which are recognized as being important for patients with TRD - and essential to recovery - including positive and negative affect, anxiety, self-rated depression severity, quality of life, functioning and cognition.
+Added: As well as looking at clinician-rated depression severity on the MADRS, the trial explored other aspects recognized as being important for patients with TRD - and essential to recovery - including positive and negative affect, anxiety, self-rated depression severity, quality of life, functioning and cognition.
These exploratory measures also showed that patients in the 25mg dose group of COMP360 psilocybin treatment reported benefits on those measures over those in the 1mg group.
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incidence) were headache, nausea, fatigue, and insomnia.
−Removed: There were 12 patients who reported treatment-emergent serious adverse events (TESAEs).
−Removed: These TESAEs included suicidal behavior, intentional self-injury, and suicidal ideation, which are regularly observed in a TRD patient population.
+Added: There were 12 patients, 5 patients in the 25 mg group, 6 patients in the 10 mg group and 1 in the 1 mg group, who reported treatment-emergent serious adverse events (TESAEs).
+Added: These TESAEs included, among others, suicidal behavior, intentional self-injury, and suicidal ideation, which are regularly observed in a TRD patient population.
Two thirds of the patients had previous thoughts of wishing to be dead, as assessed by a suicidality scale completed during patient screening;
this included all patients reporting one of these adverse events, meaning that patients who experienced these events during the trial had said in patient screening that they had had suicidal thoughts prior to the trial.
−Removed: • There was no difference between the three groups post-administration in scores from item 10 on the MADRS, which measures suicidality and was assessed by a blinded remote rater;
−Removed: mean scores across treatment groups were lower than baseline at all subsequent time points
−Removed: • 27 of the TEAEs of suicidal ideation, suicidal behavior and intentional self-injury occurred across 17 patients, with seven patients in the 25mg group, six in the 10mg group, and four in the 1mg group
−Removed: • 14 of these events of suicidal ideation, suicidal behavior and intentional self-injury were reported as TESAEs;
−Removed: these occurred across nine patients, with four patients in the 25mg group, four patients in the 10mg group, and one in the 1mg group
−Removed: • The majority of these TESAEs (10 events out of 14) occurred at least one week after the COMP360 psilocybin session
−Removed: • All suicidal behaviors occurred at least one month after the psilocybin treatment session and all patients reporting these events were non responders at their last assessment prior to the event or at the time of the event
Overall, 209 patients completed the study;
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Phase 2 Study of COMP360 Psilocybin Treatment as Adjunct to SSRI Antidepressants
−Removed: In addition to our completed Phase 2b trial, we have also completed a Phase 2 trial of the safety and efficacy of COMP360 in TRD patients when administered as an adjunct to SSRIs.
−Removed: Results of this study were published in the Nature journal Neuropsychopharmacology in July 2023.
+Added: In addition to our completed Phase 2b trial, we also completed a Phase 2 trial of the safety and efficacy of COMP360 in TRD patients when administered as an adjunct to SSRIs.
+Added: Results of this study were published in Neuropsychopharmacology in July 2023.
This open-label study included 19 patients from clinical sites in Ireland and the United States.
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Clinical Findings
−Removed: The baseline MADRS score of patients entering the study was 31.7, representing moderate to severe depression.
−Removed: At week 3, 8 of the 19 patients (42.1%) were responders and all 8 were also remitters.
+Added: The baseline MADRS score of participants entering the study was 31.7, representing moderate to severe depression.
+Added: At week 3, 8 of the 19 participants (42.1%) were responders and all 8 were also remitters.
The mean reduction from baseline observed in MADRS total score was 14.9 at week 3.
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Phase 3 Registrational Program and Supportive Studies
−Removed: We commenced our Phase 3 program evaluating our COMP360 psilocybin treatment in TRD.
+Added: Our Phase 3 program evaluating our COMP360 psilocybin treatment in TRD is ongoing.
The Phase 3 program is composed of two pivotal trials, each with a long-term follow-up component.
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a single dose (25mg) monotherapy compared with placebo.
−Removed: This trial is designed to replicate the treatment response seen in our Phase 2b trial (n=233).
−Removed: We plan to conduct the COMP005 study mostly at sites in the U.S.
−Removed: We expect to report top-line data in the fourth quarter of 2024.
+Added: We are conducting the COMP005 study at sites in the U.S.
+Added: We are nearing completion of enrollment and expect to report top-line six-week data in the second quarter of 2025 and then the 26-week 005 data once all participants in the 006 trial have completed Part A of the ‘006 trial.
• Pivotal trial 2 (COMP006) (n= 568):
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25mg, 10mg and 1mg.
−Removed: This trial is designed to investigate whether a second dose can increase treatment responders and whether a second dose can improve responses observed in our Phase 2b trial and to explore the potential for a meaningful treatment response from repeat administration of COMP360 10mg.
−Removed: We expect to report top-line data by mid-2025.
+Added: This trial is designed to investigate whether a second dose can increase therapeutic response.
+Added: We are conducting this study at sites in the U.S., UK, Canada and Europe.
+Added: We expect to report 26-week data by the second half of 2026.
• The primary endpoint in both pivotal trials is the change from baseline in MADRS total score at week 6.
−Removed: Each of these trials will have a pivotal component and a long-term follow-up component.
−Removed: The long-term follow-up component in both trials is similar.
−Removed: The long-term follow up component will include a 26 week extension where patients will remain in their original assigned treatment arms and patients who meet criteria for re-treatment will have the option to receive a further treatment session according to their assigned dose.
−Removed: This will be followed by a 26 week open label component during which all patients who meet criteria for re-treatment will have the option to receive a 25mg dose of COMP360 psilocybin.
−Removed: We believe that this design will enable us to characterize better the durability of COMP360 administration.
−Removed: During the first quarter of 2023, we commenced a Phase 2 (n=102) study to investigate the safety and tolerability of COMP360 psilocybin treatment in patients with major depressive disorder, or MDD.
+Added: Each of these trials has three parts:
+Added: Part A is the primary efficacy portion at Week 6, Part B is a blinded 20 week portion and Part C is a 26-week open-label portion.
+Added: In Part B, participants who complete Part A will be followed for 20 weeks and those who meet criteria for re-treatment will have the option to receive an additional treatment dose according to their assigned dose.
+Added: Participants who complete part B and go into Part C during which participants who meet criteria for re-treatment may receive a 25mg dose of COMP360 psilocybin.
+Added: We believe that this design will enable us to appropriately characterize the efficacy, safety and durability of COMP360 administration.
+Added: During the first quarter of 2023, we also commenced a Phase 2 (n=102) study to investigate the safety and tolerability of COMP360 psilocybin treatment in patients with major depressive disorder, or MDD.
In addition, pharmacokinetics of COMP360 psilocybin treatment will be investigated.
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Phase 2 Study in PTSD
−Removed: We conducted a Phase 2 clinical trial to assess the safety and tolerability of COMP360 psilocybin treatment, administered with psychological support, in people with PTSD, as a result of trauma experienced as adults.
+Added: We completed a Phase 2 clinical trial to assess the safety and tolerability of COMP360 psilocybin treatment, as a monotherapy in participants with PTSD, as a result of trauma experienced as adults.
It was a multicenter, fixed-dose open label study.
+Added: Participants were required to taper off their medicines.
Twenty-two participants received a single 25mg dose of investigational COMP360 psilocybin treatment.
−Removed: In line with the study design, participants are being monitored for a 12-week period post dosing.
−Removed: We plan to announce safety and efficacy data over that period in the spring of 2024.
+Added: In line with the study design, participants were monitored for a 12-week period post dosing.
+Added: In May 2024, we reported top-line results from this study.
+Added: The study met its primary safety endpoint and available secondary efficacy endpoints.
+Added: Study observations included meaningful and sustained symptom improvement from baseline in mean CAPS-5 total score, a measure of disease severity, and in Sheehan Disability Scale (SDS) score, a measure of functional impairment in daily life.
+Added: Administration of COMP360 was well-tolerated, with a safety profile consistent with previous studies.
+Added: The key findings include:
+Added: • Administration was generally well tolerated, with no serious adverse events observed.
+Added: There were no treatment-emergent serious adverse events.
+Added: Treatment-emergent adverse events included headache (n=11 or 50.0%), nausea (n=8 or 36.4%), crying (n=6 or 27.3%), and fatigue (n=6 or 27.3%).
+Added: There were two adverse events of suicidal ideation that resolved during the study.
+Added: The first was a moderate and transient event which resolved on administration day in a patient who went on to be a responder, and it was deemed to be related to study drug.
+Added: The second event was mild and occurred at week 7 in a non-responder, resolved during the study, and was deemed to be possibly related to study drug.
+Added: Both participants had previous history of suicidality as measured by the Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale.
+Added: • Durable improvement in symptoms from baseline observed following a single administration.
+Added: Improvement in mean CAPS-5 total score from a baseline of 47.5 was observed (29.9 point reduction at week 4 and 29.5 point reduction at week 12).
+Added: • Improvement over time in Sheehan Disability Scale (SDS) measure of functional impairment over 12 weeks.
+Added: From a mean SDS total score of 22.7 at baseline, there was a 11.7 point reduction at week 4 and a 14.4 point reduction at week 12.
+Added: • High and sustained rates of response and remission relative to baseline, with early onset of symptom improvement.
+Added: Response, as defined by patients experiencing a ≥ 15-point improvement on CAPS-5 score, was 81.8% at week 4 and 77.3% at week 12.
+Added: Remission, as defined by CAPS-5 total score of ≤ 20, was 63.6% at week 4 and 54.5% at week 12.
+Added: • No patients withdrew from the study and no patients returned to antidepressant medication treatment during the trial.
+Added: The open-label, multi-center, phase 2 safety study evaluated investigational COMP360 psilocybin treatment in 22 patients with PTSD resulting from trauma in adulthood.
+Added: Participants received a single 25mg dose along with psychological support.
+Added: Psychological support was provided by a licensed medical professional to ensure patient safety, which consisted of preparing participants for the treatment session, observing and being present with patients during the session and supporting them after the session.
+Added: Primary endpoint was safety at week 12;
+Added: available secondary endpoints were change in CAPS-5 from baseline and change in SDS total score from baseline.
+Added: The mean baseline severity of symptoms was a baseline of 47.5 (minimum of 25;
+Added: maximum of 64) CAPS-5 total score, which is considered severe.
+Added: The CAPS-5 assessment involves a structured interview that provides a PTSD diagnosis and measures symptom severity.
+Added: The average age of participants at the time of screening was 39 and patients diagnosed with complex PTSD were excluded from study eligibility.
+Added: The study was conducted at The Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York and Sunstone Therapies in Rockville, Maryland.
Phase 2 Study in Anorexia
−Removed: We are conducting a double-blind randomized controlled Phase 2 clinical trial investigating the safety and efficacy of COMP360 psilocybin, administered with psychological support, in people with anorexia nervosa.
−Removed: It is a multicenter study and will enroll 60 patients.
−Removed: W e had experienced some delays due to challenges in recruiting and screening participants for our Phase 2 trial in anorexia nervosa.
−Removed: To address these challenges, we amended the trial protocol and adjusted our procedures.
+Added: We closed enrollment in the second half of 2024 for a double-blind randomized controlled Phase 2 clinical trial investigating the safety and efficacy of COMP360 psilocybin in participants with anorexia nervosa.
+Added: It is a multicenter study and enrolled 32 patients.
+Added: We expect to report data from this study in 2025.
Other Indications:
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Adjusted-response rates for QIDS-SR-16 (defined as ≥50% reduction from baseline in the QIDS-SR-16 total score) at week 6 were 70.2% for the COMP360 arm vs.
−Removed: 48.0% for the escitalopram arm and adjusted-remission rates (defined as a QIDS-SR-16 total score ≤5) at week 6 were 57.1% and 29.1%, respectively.
+Added: 48.0% for the
+Added: escitalopram arm and adjusted-remission rates (defined as a QIDS-SR-16 total score ≤5) at week 6 were 57.1% and 29.1%, respectively.
For the MADRS – a more widely used and accepted clinician-rated scale which Compass is using as the primary endpoint in their clinical trials – a least square means treatment difference of -7.2 was found.
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The primary aim of this study was to assess the safety and tolerability of a single 25mg dose of psilocybin in participants with anorexia nervosa based on adverse events, changes in vital signs, electrocardiograms and clinical laboratory tests.
−Removed: Forty percent (n=4) experienced clinically meaningful reductions at the 3-month follow-up, based on
−Removed: global score on the Eating Disorder Examination (EDE).
+Added: Forty percent (n=4) experienced clinically meaningful reductions at the 3-month follow-up, based on global score on the Eating Disorder Examination (EDE).
Participants demonstrated nominally statistically significant reductions in shape concerns on the EDE at the 1-month follow-up (mean change from pre-treatment=1.3;
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The investigator published data from this study in The Lancet (Von Rotz et al, Lancet 2023;
−Removed: In this double-blind, randomized clinical trial, 52 patients with major depressive disorder were randomized 1:1 to receive either a single, moderate dose (0.215 mg/kg body weight) of COMP360 psilocybin or placebo in conjunction with psychological support.
+Added: this double-blind, randomized clinical trial, 52 patients with major depressive disorder were randomized 1:1 to receive either a single, moderate dose (0.215 mg/kg body weight) of COMP360 psilocybin or placebo in conjunction with psychological support.
MADRS and Beck's Depression Inventory (BDI) scores were assessed to estimate depression severity and the primary endpoints were defined as changes from baseline to two weeks after the administration of COMP360.
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Preclinical and Drug Discovery Programs
+Added: Prior to our strategic reorganization in the fourth quarter of 2024 and decision to stop all non-COMP 360 preclinical activities to allow us to focus entirely on advancing development of our investigational COMP360 psilocybin treatment, we progressed a number of preclinical initiatives during 2024.
+Added: We retain rights to these preclinical assets and may in the future decide to resume our preclinical activities.
Mechanistic Studies
−Removed: We are working with academic researchers and CROs to investigate the mechanistic characteristics of psilocybin treatment.
−Removed: We have also established a network of PhD studentships predominantly within the United Kingdom (namely at the following universities:
−Removed: University of Oxford, University of Bristol, University of Reading and University of Southampton) to research elements of this work.
+Added: We continue to work with a small group of academic researchers and CROs to investigate mechanistic characteristics of psilocybin treatment.
+Added: We currently have a network of studentships predominantly within the United Kingdom (namely at the following universities:
+Added: University of Oxford, University of Bristol, University of Reading and University of Southampton, University of Cardiff) to research elements of this work.
Our mechanistic research utilizes our COMP360 and currently focuses on the following themes:
−Removed: • Study of the mechanisms by which psilocin, the active moiety of our high-purity polymorphic crystalline formulation psilocybin, and other psychedelic agents engage receptors in recombinant cell-based assays (collaboration with Professor Trevor Sharp, University of Oxford).
−Removed: The aim here is to understand which systems are optimal to use for discovery research, and to understand further how different drugs may influence receptor-mediated signal transduction;
−Removed: • Through collaborations with the University of Bristol (Professor Matt Jones, in particular) and CROs (e.g.
−Removed: Neurotar and Synapcell), we are also investigating the integrated electrophysiological response to psychedelic administration, to determine how changes in neuronal excitatory activity mediate brain-wide changes in resting state network activity;
−Removed: • Preclinical academic collaborations with the University of Bristol, Harvard University, Oxford University and the Southern Denmark University to study the effects of our high-purity polymorphic crystalline formulation of psilocybin on a number of different aspects of behavior, including affective bias, reward learning and compulsive behavior that may provide insights relevant to information processing alterations frequently observed in mental health conditions;
−Removed: • Collaborations with the University of Reading and the University of Southampton also focus on understanding what the potential role of inflammatory modulating processes might be in the mechanism of action of COMP360;
−Removed: • A study of the sustained effects of our high-purity polymorphic crystalline formulation psilocybin through the investigation of short- and long-term changes in gene expression (mRNA) and epigenetic regulation (miRNA and DNA methylation) as part of ongoing work with CROs (Sygnature and ActiveMotif)
−Removed: • A healthy volunteer study with Imperial College London, investigating the acute and long-term psychological and brain effects of psilocybin treatment, using COMP360.
−Removed: These studies will further our understanding of the mechanism of action and inform our decisions over which other indications to explore, beyond TRD and PTSD.
+Added: • Study of the mechanisms by which psilocin, the active moiety of our high-purity polymorphic crystalline formulation of psilocybin, and other psychedelic agents engage receptors in recombinant cell-based assays (collaboration with Professor Trevor Sharp, University of Oxford).
+Added: The aim here is to understand which systems are optimal to use for discovery research, how different drugs may influence receptor-mediated signal transduction, and how mechanisms of biased agonism may play into mechanistic effects;
+Added: • Through collaborations with the University of Bristol (Professor Emma Robinson and Professor Jack Mellor , in particular), we are also investigating the integrated electrophysiological response to psychedelic administration, to determine how changes in neuronal excitatory activity mediate brain-wide changes in resting state network activity and how these influence sustained changes in behavior;
+Added: • Preclinical academic collaborations with the University of Bristol, Harvard University, Oxford University and the Southern Denmark University have studied the effects of our high-purity polymorphic crystalline formulation of psilocybin on different aspects of behavior, including affective bias, reward learning and compulsive behavior that may provide insights relevant to information processing alterations frequently observed in mental health conditions.
+Added: In particular, work at the University of Oxford (collaboration with Professor Mark Walton) is utilizing novel behavioral pharmacological techniques to assess the impact of our high-purity polymorphic crystalline formulation of psilocybin for effects on cognitive flexibility at periods hours to days after administration.
+Added: • Collaborations with the University of Reading and the University of Southampton also focus on understanding what the potential role of inflammatory modulating processes might be in the mechanism of action of COMP360, and consider whether COMP360 may have utility in other types of CNS indications.
+Added: Collaborations with the University of Cardiff (Professor Dominic Dwyer) will also consider effects of COMP360 on measures of affective behavior and anhedonia in transgenic mice carrying disease-relevant genetic mutations, and integrate these findings with cellular and electrophysiological changes;
+Added: These studies will further our understanding of the mechanism of action for COMP360 and could inform our future decisions over which other indications, if any, to explore, beyond TRD and PTSD.
Drug Discovery Center
On August 5, 2020, we established a Drug Discovery Center under a sponsored research agreement with the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (which merged into Saint Joseph’s University in 2022), or USciences, to focus on developing optimized psychedelic and related compounds targeting the 5-HT 2A receptor, which is believed to mediate the potential therapeutic effects of psychedelics.
−Removed: Pursuant to the agreement, USciences is performing research services on our behalf, and has granted us an exclusive, royalty bearing, worldwide license, including rights to sublicense, all jointly held intellectual property for any and all purposes, and a non-exclusive, fully paid-up, worldwide license to any pre-existing intellectual property utilized over the course of performing the services.
−Removed: Under the agreement, we will pay a one-time research service fee of an estimated $0.5 million and tiered payments upon completion of certain milestones by USciences up to an aggregate of $0.9 million per licensed product covered by a valid claim of a patent included in the intellectual property rights licensed to us under the agreement, as well as a low single-digit royalty percentage on annual net sales of licensed products covered by a valid claim of a patent included in the intellectual property rights licensed to us under the agreement , subject to certain reductions.
+Added: Further to the strategic reorganization we announced in the fourth quarter of 2024 and our decision to stop non-COMP360 preclinical and discovery work and focus all our resources on advancing development of our investigational COMP360 treatment, this agreement with USciences was not renewed and will terminate in the second quarter of 2025.
+Added: Pursuant to the agreement, USciences performed research services on our behalf, and granted us an exclusive, royalty bearing, worldwide license, including rights to sublicense, all jointly held intellectual property for any and all purposes, and a non-exclusive, fully paid-up, worldwide license to any pre-existing intellectual property utilized over the course of performing the services.
+Added: As of December 31, 2024, we had identified one compound under this agreement.
+Added: If in the future we decide to resume development efforts for this compound, we would be obligated to make tiered payments upon completion of certain milestones to USciences for up to an aggregate of $0.9 million per licensed product covered by a valid claim of a patent included in the intellectual property rights licensed to us under the agreement, as well as a low single-digit royalty percentage on annual net sales of licensed products covered by a valid claim of a patent included in the intellectual property rights licensed to us under the agreement, subject to certain reductions.
In addition, USciences is entitled to a low double-digit percentage of sublicense revenue for agreements entered into prior to a Phase 2 trial, and a mid-single-digit percentage of sublicense revenue for agreements entered into after the start of a Phase 2 trial.
−Removed: Unless earlier terminated, the agreement terminates upon the expiration or revocation of the last valid claim of any patent included in the joint intellectual property .
−Removed: We and USciences can terminate the agreement in the event of a material breach by the other party and failure to cure such breach within a certain period of time.
−Removed: Additionally, we and USciences can terminate the research service in the event of a material safety or regulatory issue with respect to the research service.
−Removed: We may also terminate the research service at will upon sixty (60) days prior written notice to USciences.
−Removed: USciences can terminate the research service if such services would materially and negatively interfere with its operations or upon the continuation of a force majeure event.
−Removed: There are no current licensed patents or patent applications under the sponsored research agreement.
−Removed: Ongoing research on prodrug development has led to a number of potential candidate leads being identified that we plan to continue through further research-based development.
+Added: Ongoing research on prodrug development led to a number of potential candidate leads being identified.
+Added: We retain rights to these potential candidates and in the future to the extent that we decide to resume non-COMP360 preclinical activities we may continue such potential candidates through further research-based development.
Delix Therapeutics
−Removed: On March 6, 2020 we made a strategic investment to acquire 1,250,000 shares of series seed preferred stock in Delix Therapeutics, Inc., a drug discovery and development company researching novel small molecules for use in CNS indications.
−Removed: Delix Therapeutics develops non-hallucinogenic psychoplastogens, which are molecules capable of promoting neural plasticity without hallucinogenic effects, by modifying existing psychedelics.
−Removed: These compounds may have potential for a range of neuropsychiatric conditions.
−Removed: Therapist Training
−Removed: Our therapist training program was originally designed by experts from the fields of psychology, psychiatry and psychedelic therapy research.
−Removed: We are continuously evaluating opportunities to improve the quality and scalability of our therapist training program.
−Removed: To date, we have trained more than 300 therapists, approximately 150 of whom have been approved to lead sessions independently, and approximately 100 of whom are engaged in our active clinical trials.
−Removed: This number will increase as more sites open for our Phase 3 clinical trials in TRD as well as our other clinical trials.
−Removed: Therapists are often referred to us by clinical trial sites and are employed by the sites.
−Removed: Details of our therapist training program were published in February 2021 in the peer-reviewed journal Frontiers in Psychiatry.
−Removed: Our core training curriculum consists of:
−Removed: • Tier I - Theoretical Training:
−Removed: Approximately five hours of self-paced online learning through our interactive therapist training platform, including a therapist manual, videos illustrating the competencies required from therapists throughout preparation, psilocybin administration, and integration sessions with study participants, and self-assessed knowledge checks;
−Removed: • Tier II - Practical Clinical Skills Training:
−Removed: Approximately 30 hours of live, remotely-delivered (via Zoom) interactive learning, led by therapist trainers;
−Removed: • Tier III - Clinical training:
−Removed: At this stage, therapists review a selection of session recordings from our previous clinical trials (on our interactive therapist training platform), and support one participant in a COMP360 psilocybin treatment study alongside a therapist qualified to lead sessions independently.
−Removed: Following completion of Tier III, therapists are able to lead sessions independently;
−Removed: • Tier IV - Continuous Professional Development:
−Removed: Therapists receive mentoring and support throughout their participation in our clinical studies.
−Removed: Mentors have access to recordings of sessions (with participant consent) led by their mentees, and are therefore able to provide adequate feedback to ensure fidelity to the psychological support model.
−Removed: Our therapist training program is currently available to professionals involved in our ongoing studies.
−Removed: As we scale, we may expand our training to a larger pool of qualified healthcare professionals.
+Added: On March 6, 2020 we made a strategic investment to acquire 1,250,000 shares of series seed preferred stock in Delix Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical-stage neuroscience company developing novel neuroplasticity-promoting therapeutics for psychiatric and neurological disorders..
Using Digital Technology
−Removed: We believe digital technology will change the way patients access psychotherapy services and manage their mental health conditions.
−Removed: We anticipate software applications will enhance activities traditionally done with an in-person therapist.
−Removed: We also believe remote consultations will help to remove barriers to accessing treatment such as stigma or lack of transportation.
−Removed: Furthermore, digital tools will enable greater self-care, as they support patients managing depressive episodes on their own and will be used to complement and augment psychotherapy and pharmacological treatments.
−Removed: Working with third parties, we currently use digital technology in a number of ways:
+Added: We believe digital technology can help increase patient access to mental health treatment and services and manage their mental health conditions.
+Added: Furthermore, digital tools have the potential to enable greater self-care, as they may support patients managing depressive episodes on their own and may complement and augment psychotherapy and pharmacological treatments.
+Added: Working with third parties, we currently use digital technology in our clinical trials in a number of ways:
• An online and mobile app preparation platform for participants in our TRD trial to educate them and help prepare them for their psilocybin experience;
−Removed: • A web-based “shared knowledge” interactive therapist training platform, complementing our comprehensive face-to-face training program;
+Added: • A web-based “shared knowledge” interactive healthcare professional training platform, complementing our comprehensive face-to-face training program;
• Collection of measurements in our clinical trials, including remote data collection using mobile devices so patients do not need to travel into study sites for all in-clinic visits;
• Collection of some digital phenotyping information through the measurement of human-smartphone interactions;
−Removed: • Harnessing AI and natural language processing capabilities to potentially characterize the mechanism of change and assess therapist fidelity to our treatment protocol for psychological support.
−Removed: We are building an in-house digital team with experts in digital technology, engineering, and AI, which we refer to as augmented intelligence as well as artificial intelligence.
−Removed: We will continue to collaborate with other digital companies to research, develop and ultimately commercialize proprietary digital technology solutions that have the potential to complement and augment our investigational COMP360 psilocybin treatment.
−Removed: We believe this may enable us to offer a personalized, preventative and predictive care model.
+Added: • Harnessing AI and natural language processing capabilities to potentially characterize the mechanism of change and assess fidelity to our treatment protocol for psychological support.
+Added: We have built an in-house digital team with experience in digital technology, engineering and AI, which we refer to as augmented intelligence as well as artificial intelligence.
+Added: This team has focused on researching and developing proprietary digital tools and technology to test evidence-based methods for assessing mental health treatments.
+Added: We are exploring externalizing this team and these technologies and the associated intellectual property to a new company established by our co-founders, George Goldsmith and Ekaterina Malievskaia that could potentially support an evidence-based approach for any company developing or delivering mental health treatments.
+Added: We expect to have a final decision on this externalization in the second quarter of 2025.
Manufacturing and Supply
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We use additional contract manufacturers to fill, label, package, store and distribute our drug product.
−Removed: We currently rely on a single supplier for our API but have identified additional
−Removed: manufacturers who have the appropriate experience and expertise to act as back-up suppliers of API and fill-and-finish services.
+Added: We currently rely on a single supplier for our API but have identified additional manufacturers who have the appropriate experience and expertise to act as back-up suppliers of API and fill-and-finish services.
We believe we maintain sufficient supply of API to avoid any material disruptions in the event of any need to replace one or more of our suppliers.
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In select geographies outside the U.S., we may enter into commercialization collaborations with third parties who have complementary commercial capabilities.
−Removed: Upon any approval, we intend to offer a range of services to enable the safe and effective use of COMP360 with psychological support in clinical practice.
−Removed: These services are expected to include therapist training, information and education for patients and healthcare providers, and implementation support for treatment centers, such as guidance on procurement and installation of equipment, certification, and quality assurance.
−Removed: In order to create a new mental health care model, we have established Centers of Excellence to serve as research facilities and innovation labs.
−Removed: In January 2021, we established our first Center of Excellence, with The Sheppard Pratt Institute for Advanced Diagnostics and Therapeutics, in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States.
−Removed: In strategic collaboration with King’s College London and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, or SLaM, we opened The Center for Mental Health Research and Innovation with an overarching goal of accelerating patient access to evidence-based innovation in mental health care by driving forward research in psychedelic therapies through, among other things, the development of working model psychedelic treatment clinics, therapist training programs, conducting clinical trials, and data analysis.
+Added: We recognize that COMP360 psilocybin treatment, if approved, represents a new approach for many clinical practices and that delivering COMP360 is expected to require the ability to implement COMP360 seamlessly within a provider’s operating practice.
+Added: In order to ensure we understand implementation challenges, we entered into agreements with different types of healthcare delivery centers, including Hackensack Meridian Health, a leading not-for-profit health care organization in New Jersey, and Greenbrook TMS (acquired by Neuronetics, Inc.
+Added: in December 2024), which operates a network of treatment centers throughout the United States, to research and investigate models for the delivery of scalable, commercial COMP360 psilocybin treatment within various types of healthcare delivery systems, assuming FDA approval.
+Added: We have established Centers of Excellence to serve as research facilities and innovation labs.
+Added: In strategic collaboration with King’s College London and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, or SLaM, we opened The Center for Mental Health Research and Innovation with an overarching goal of accelerating patient access to evidence-based innovation in mental health care by driving forward research in psychedelic therapies through, among other things, the development of working model psychedelic treatment clinics, training programs, conducting clinical trials, and data analysis.
The Center currently serves as a clinical trial site for our Phase 3 COMP006 trial.
−Removed: Recently, we entered into research collaborations with Hackensack Meridian Health, a leading not-for-profit health care organization in New Jersey, and Greenbrook TMS, which operates through 130 company-operated treatment centers throughout the United States, to research and investigate models for the delivery of scalable, commercial COMP360 psilocybin treatment within healthcare systems, assuming FDA approval.
Our industry is characterized by many newly emerging and innovative technologies, intense competition and a strong emphasis on proprietary product rights.
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Several biopharmaceutical companies have therapies in clinical development for TRD.
−Removed: We are aware that Supernus Pharmaceuticals and Neurocrine Biosciences, among others, are developing treatments for TRD or inadequate response to treatment in major depressive disorder.
+Added: We are aware that Supernus
+Added: Pharmaceuticals, Neurocrine Biosciences, GH Research and Beckley Psytech, among others, are developing treatments for TRD or inadequate response to treatment in major depressive disorder.
Multiple somatic therapies are also used in TRD, such as ECT and rTMS.
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We also face competition from 501(c)(3) non-profit medical research organizations, including the Usona Institute.
+Added: In March 2024, Usona Institute announced the launch of its Phase 3 trial evaluating the efficacy and safety of psilocybin 25 mg in as a treatment for major depressive disorder, which is expected to enroll approximately 240 adult patients.
+Added: Usona has 26 clinical trial sites, continues to progress its Phase 3 trial and expects to complete the primary endpoint in its Phase 3 trial in April 2025 and the long-term follow-up portion of its Phase 3 trial in April 2026.
Such non-profits may be willing to provide psilocybin-based products at cost or for free, undermining our potential market for COMP360.
−Removed: In addition, a number of for-profit biotechnology companies or institutions are specifically pursuing the development of psilocybin to treat mental health illnesses, including TRD.
+Added: In addition, a number of for-profit biotechnology companies or institutions are specifically pursuing the development of psilocybin to treat mental health illnesses, including Cybin Inc.
+Added: In March 2024, Cybin announced the design of its Phase 3 program for its deuterated psilocybin analog for the adjunctive treatment of major depressive disorder, which includes two Phase 3 trials and is expected to enroll approximately 550 adult patients.
+Added: In November 2024, Cybin announced the initiation of its Phase 3 program.
We are aware of other organizations or institutions evaluating the use of psilocybin in mental health and neurocognitive conditions.
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Patents and Patent Applications or PCT National Stage Applications
−Removed: US 10,519,175 Methods of treating treatment-resistant depression ca.2038* Applications filed in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Eurasian Patent Organization, European Patent Office, Indonesia, Israel, India, Japan, Republic of Korea, Mexico, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Thailand, and South Africa.
+Added: US 10,519,175 Methods of treating treatment-resistant depression ca.2038* Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Eurasian Patent Organization, European Patent Office, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Israel, India, Japan, Republic of Korea, Mexico, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Thailand, and South Africa.
US 10,947,257 Oral dosage forms of crystalline psilocybin;
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+Added: US 11,851,451
+Added: Crystalline psilocybin;
+Added: Pharmaceutical formulations ca.
+Added: US 11,939,346
+Added: Crystalline psilocybin;
+Added: Pharmaceutical formulations ca.
US 18/433,051 Crystalline psilocybin;
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+Added: US 18/989,682 Crystalline psilocybin;
+Added: Pharmaceutical formulations ca.
GB 2571696 Method of manufacturing ca.
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Methods of treating anxiety disorders and other conditions
−Removed: 2040* Applications filed in U.S., Australia, Canada, China, European Patent Office, Japan and Republic of Korea.
+Added: 2040* Applications filed in Australia, Canada, China, European Patent Office, Hong Kong, Japan and Republic of Korea.
US 11,564,935
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US 11,738,035 Method of treating anorexia ca.
+Added: US 11,865,126 Method of treating anxiety ca.
+Added: US 18/522,440 Method of treating eating disorders ca.
PCT WO2020/212948
Methods of treating neurocognitive disorders and other conditions
−Removed: 2040* Applications filed in U.S., Australia, Canada, China, European Patent Office, Japan and Republic of Korea.
−Removed: US 17/604,610 Method of treating depression ca.
+Added: 2040* Applications filed in Australia, Canada, China, European Patent Office, Hong Kong, Japan and Republic of Korea.
+Added: US 17/604,606
+Added: Method of treating attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism spectrum disorder, or chronic pain ca.
PCT WO2020/212952
Methods of treating depression and other disorders
−Removed: 2040* Applications filed in U.S., Australia, Canada, China, European Patent Office, Japan, Republic of Korea and Taiwan.
+Added: 2040* Applications filed in Australia, Canada, China, European Patent Office, Hong Kong, Japan, Republic of Korea and Taiwan.
+Added: US 17/604,610 Method of treating depression ca.
PCT WO2022/207746 Pharmaceutical formulations ca.
−Removed: 2042* Applications filed in U.S., Taiwan, Argentina, Australia, Canada, China, European Patent office, Japan, and Republic of Korea.
+Added: 2041* Applications filed in Taiwan, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Columbia, European Patent office, , Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Hong Kong, and Republic of Korea, Mexico, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, and South Africa.
US 18/285,109 Pharmaceutical formulations ca.
+Added: PCT WO 2023/86252 Redosing schedules for subjects with treatment resistant depression ca.
+Added: 2042* Applications filed in Australia, Canada, China, European Patent Office, Japan, Republic of Korea, Mexico, New Zealand, and Singapore.
+Added: US 18/703,950 Redosing schedules for subjects with treatment resistant depression ca.
+Added: PCT WO 2023/114097 Method of treating treatment resistant depression with psilocybin and serotonin reuptake inhibitor ca.
+Added: 2042* Applications filed in U.S., Australia, Canada, China, European Patent Office, Japan, Republic of Korea, Mexico, New Zealand, and Singapore.
+Added: US 18/718,103 Method of treating treatment resistant depression with psilocybin and serotonin reuptake inhibitor ca.
*In general, a U.S.
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Freedom to Operate, Inc.
−Removed: filed a request for rehearing on July 22, 2022, and a request for Precedential opinion panel on August 16, 2022.
+Added: filed a request for rehearing on July 22, 2022, and a request for Precedential opinion panel
+Added: on August 16, 2022.
The USPTO Board denied the request for Precedential Opinion Panel (POP) review on February 10, 2023.
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On November 22, 2022, Porta Sophia filed a Third-Party Observation against international patent application WO2022/207746.
+Added: On October 31, 2024, Porta Sophia filed a Third Party Submission against U.S.
+Added: patent application 18/285,109, which is the U.S.
+Added: national phase entry of WO2022/207746.
The Company has pursued protection for its trademarks across Classes 5, 9, 10, 35, 41, 42, 44 or various combinations thereof.
−Removed: Our trademark portfolio includes filings for the COMPASS, COMPASS PATHWAYS, C Design, MYPATHFINDER, and CHANTERELLE marks in the United States, European Union, and United Kingdom, as detailed in the chart below.
−Removed: The Company owns registrations for the COMPASS, COMPASS PATHWAYS, and C Design marks in the United States, European Union, and United Kingdom;
−Removed: and for the MYPATHFINDER mark in the United Kingdom.
−Removed: Applications are pending for the MYPATHFINDER mark in the United States and European Union;
−Removed: and for the CHANTERELLE mark in the United States.
+Added: Our trademark portfolio includes active filings for the COMPASS, COMPASS PATHWAYS, C Design, MYPATHFINDER, CHANTERELLE, COMPASS PATHWAVES, NUFONDIS, and EMPAQUIST marks in the United States, European Union, and United Kingdom, as detailed in the chart below.
+Added: The Company owns registrations for the COMPASS, COMPASS PATHWAYS, C Design, and MYPATHFINDER marks in the United States, European Union, and United Kingdom;
+Added: and for the CHANTERELLE, COMPASS PATHWAVES, NUFONDIS and EMPAQUIST marks in the European Union and United Kingdom.
+Added: Applications are pending for the CHANTERELLE, COMPASS PATHWAVES, NUFONDIS, and EMPAQUIST marks in the United States.
The Company also owns trademark registrations and pending applications in other countries.
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Government Regulation
−Removed: The FDA and other regulatory authorities at federal, state and local levels, as well as in foreign countries, extensively regulate, among other things, the research, development, testing, manufacture, quality control, import, export, safety, effectiveness, labeling, packaging, storage, distribution, recordkeeping, approval, advertising, promotion, marketing, post-approval monitoring and post-approval reporting of drugs.
+Added: The FDA and other regulatory authorities at federal, state and local levels, as well as in foreign countries, extensively regulate, among other things, the research, development, testing, manufacture, quality control, import, export, safety, effectiveness, labeling, packaging, storage, distribution, record-keeping, approval, advertising, promotion, marketing, post-approval monitoring and post-approval reporting of drugs.
We, along with our vendors, contract research organizations and contract manufacturers, will be required to navigate the various preclinical, clinical, manufacturing and commercial approval requirements of the governing regulatory agencies of the countries in which we wish to conduct studies or seek approval of our product candidates.
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The clinical stage of development involves the administration of the product candidate to healthy volunteers or patients under the supervision of qualified investigators, who generally are physicians not employed by or under the trial sponsor’s control, in accordance with GCP requirements, which include the requirements that all research subjects provide their informed consent for their participation in any clinical trial.
−Removed: Clinical trials are conducted under protocols detailing, among
−Removed: other things, the objectives of the clinical trial, administration procedures, subject selection and exclusion criteria and the parameters and criteria to be used in monitoring safety and evaluating effectiveness.
+Added: Clinical trials are conducted under protocols detailing, among other things, the objectives of the clinical trial, administration procedures, subject selection and exclusion criteria and the parameters and criteria to be used in monitoring safety and evaluating effectiveness.
Each protocol, and any subsequent amendments to the protocol, must be submitted to the FDA as part of the IND.
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The IRB also approves the informed consent form that must be provided to each clinical trial subject or his or her legal representative and must monitor the clinical trial until completed.
−Removed: The FDA, the IRB, or the sponsor may suspend or discontinue a clinical trial at any time on various grounds, including a finding that the subjects are being exposed to an unacceptable health risk.
+Added: The FDA, the IRB, or the sponsor may suspend or discontinue a clinical trial at any time on various grounds, including a finding that the subjects are being exposed to an unacceptable safety risk.
There also are requirements governing the reporting of ongoing clinical trials and completed clinical trials to public registries.
−Removed: Information about clinical trials, including results for clinical trials other than Phase 1 investigations, must be submitted within specific timeframes for publication on www.ClinicalTrials.gov, a clinical trials database maintained by the National Institutes of Health.
+Added: Information about clinical trials, including results for clinical trials other than Phase 1 investigations, must be submitted within specific time-frames for publication on www.ClinicalTrials.gov, a clinical trials database maintained by the National Institutes of Health.
A sponsor who wishes to conduct a clinical trial outside of the United States may, but need not, obtain FDA authorization to conduct the clinical trial under an IND.
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An approval letter authorizes commercial marketing of the drug with specific prescribing information for specific indications.
−Removed: Even if the FDA approves a product, depending on the specific risks to be addressed it may limit the approved indications for use of the product, require that contraindications, warnings or precautions be included in the product labeling, require that post-approval studies, including Phase 4 clinical trials, be conducted to further assess a drug’s safety after approval, require testing and surveillance programs to monitor the product after commercialization, or impose other conditions, including
−Removed: distribution and use restrictions or other risk management mechanisms under a REMS, which can materially affect the potential market and profitability of the product.
+Added: Even if the FDA approves a product, depending on the specific risks to be addressed it may limit the approved indications for use of the product, require that contraindications, warnings or precautions be included in the product labeling, require that post-approval studies, including Phase 4 clinical trials, be conducted to further assess a drug’s safety after approval, require testing and surveillance programs to monitor the product after commercialization, or impose other conditions, including distribution and use restrictions or other risk management mechanisms under a REMS, which can materially affect the potential market and profitability of the product.
The FDA may prevent or limit further marketing of a product based on the results of post-marketing studies or surveillance programs.
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Any product submitted to the FDA for approval, including a product with Fast Track or Breakthrough Therapy designation, may also be eligible for additional FDA programs intended to expedite the review and approval process, including Priority Review designation and Accelerated Approval.
−Removed: A product is eligible for Priority Review designation, once an NDA or BLA is submitted, if the drug that is the subject of the marketing application has the potential to provide a significant improvement in safety or effectiveness in the treatment, diagnosis or prevention of a serious disease or condition.
+Added: A product is eligible for Priority Review designation, once an NDA or BLA is submitted, if the drug that is the subject of the marketing application has the potential to provide a significant
+Added: improvement in safety or effectiveness in the treatment, diagnosis or prevention of a serious disease or condition.
Under priority review, the FDA’s goal date to take action on the marketing application is six months compared to ten months for a standard review.
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Although physicians may prescribe legally available products for off-label uses, manufacturers may not market or promote such uses.
−Removed: The FDA and other agencies actively enforce the laws and regulations prohibiting the promotion of off-label uses, and a company that is found to have improperly promoted off-label uses may be subject to significant liability, including investigation by federal and state authorities.
+Added: The FDA and other agencies actively enforce the laws and regulations prohibiting the promotion of off-label uses, and a company that is found to have improperly promoted off-label uses may be
+Added: subject to significant liability, including investigation by federal and state authorities.
Prescription drug promotional materials must be submitted to the FDA in conjunction with their first use or first publication.
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In addition, drug manufacturers and other entities involved in the manufacture and distribution of approved drugs, and those supplying products, ingredients, and components of them, are required to register their establishments with the FDA and certain state agencies and are subject to periodic unannounced inspections by the FDA and certain state agencies for compliance with ongoing regulatory requirements, including cGMPs, which impose certain procedural and documentation requirements.
+Added: I n addition, the Drug Supply Chain Security Act, or DSCSA, was enacted in 2013 with the aim of building an electronic system to identify and trace certain prescription drugs and biologics distributed in the United States.
+Added: The DSCSA mandates phased-in and resource-intensive obligations for pharmaceutical manufacturers, wholesale distributors, and dispensers over a 10-year period that culminated in November 2023.
+Added: The FDA established a one-year stabilization period until November 2024 for trading partners to continue to build and validate interoperable systems and processes to meet certain requirements of the DSCSA.
+Added: In late 2024, the FDA announced it is allowing a further exemption period for eligible trading partners who have successfully completed or made documented efforts to complete data connections with their immediate trading partners, but still face challenges exchanging data.
+Added: The exemption period for eligible manufacturers and repackagers now extends until May 27, 2025.
+Added: The DSCSA requirements include the quarantine and prompt investigation of a suspect product, to determine if it is illegitimate, notifying trading partners and the FDA of any illegitimate product, and compliance with product tracking and tracing requirements.
+Added: Changes to the manufacturing process are strictly regulated and often require prior FDA approval before being implemented.
+Added: FDA regulations also require investigation and correction of any deviations from cGMP requirements and impose reporting and documentation requirements upon the sponsor and any third-party manufacturers that the sponsor may decide to use.
+Added: Accordingly, manufacturers must continue to expend time, money, and effort in the area of production and quality control to maintain cGMP compliance.
Failure to comply with statutory and regulatory requirements may subject a manufacturer to legal or regulatory action, such as warning letters, suspension of manufacturing, product seizures, injunctions, civil penalties or criminal prosecution.
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The CSA imposes registration, security, recordkeeping and reporting, storage, manufacturing, distribution, importation and other requirements under the oversight of the DEA.
−Removed: The DEA is the federal agency responsible for regulating controlled substances, and requires those individuals or entities that manufacture, import, export, distribute, research, or dispense controlled substances to comply with the regulatory requirements in order to prevent the diversion of controlled substances to illicit channels of commerce.
+Added: The DEA is the federal
+Added: agency responsible for regulating controlled substances, and requires those individuals or entities that manufacture, import, export, distribute, research, or dispense controlled substances to comply with the regulatory requirements in order to prevent the diversion of controlled substances to illicit channels of commerce.
The DEA categorizes controlled substances into one of five schedules — Schedule I, II, III, IV or V — with varying qualifications for listing in each schedule.
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State authorities, including boards of pharmacy, regulate use of controlled substances in each state.
−Removed: Failure to maintain compliance with applicable requirements, particularly as manifested in the loss or diversion of controlled substances, can result in enforcement action that could have a material adverse effect on our business,
−Removed: operations and financial condition.
+Added: Failure to maintain compliance with applicable requirements, particularly as manifested in the loss or diversion of controlled substances, can result in enforcement action that could have a material adverse effect on our business, operations and financial condition.
The DEA may seek civil penalties, refuse to renew necessary registrations, or initiate proceedings to revoke those registrations.
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Whether or not it obtains FDA approval for a product, an applicant will need to obtain the necessary approvals by the comparable foreign regulatory authorities before it can initiate clinical trials or marketing of the product in those countries or jurisdictions.
−Removed: Specifically, the process governing approval of medicinal products in the EU generally follows the same lines as in the United States, although the approval of a medicinal product in the United States is no guarantee of approval of the same product in the EU, either at all or within the same timescale as approval may be granted in the United States.
+Added: Specifically, the
+Added: process governing approval of medicinal products in the EU generally follows the same lines as in the United States, although the approval of a medicinal product in the United States is no guarantee of approval of the same product in the EU, either at all or within the same timescale as approval may be granted in the United States.
It entails satisfactory completion of pharmaceutical development, non-clinical studies and adequate and well-controlled clinical trials to establish the safety and efficacy of the medicinal product for each proposed indication.
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In April 2014, the EU adopted the Clinical Trials Regulation (EU) No 536/2014, which replaced the previous Clinical Trials Directive 2001/20/EC on January 31, 2022 and overhauls the system of approvals for clinical trials in the EU.
−Removed: Specifically, the new legislation, which is directly applicable in all EU Member States (meaning that no national implementing legislation in each EU Member State is required), aims at simplifying and streamlining the approval of clinical trials in the EU.
+Added: Specifically, the Clinical Trials Regulation, which is directly applicable in all EU Member States (meaning that no national implementing legislation in each EU Member State is required), aims at simplifying and streamlining the approval of clinical trials in the EU.
For instance, the Clinical Trials Regulation provides for a streamlined application procedure via a single-entry point (instead of submitting applications separately to each national competent authority and ethics committee in the Member States in which the trial will be conducted) and strictly defined deadlines for the assessment of clinical trial applications.
The Clinical Trials Regulation also makes it more efficient for EU Member States to evaluate and authorize applications together, via the Clinical Trials Information System.
−Removed: The transitory provisions of the Clinical Trials Regulation provide that, by January 31, 2025, all ongoing clinical trials must have transitioned to the new EU Clinical Trials Regulation.
+Added: The transitory provisions of the Clinical Trials Regulation provide that, by January 31, 2025, all ongoing clinical trials must have transitioned to the Clinical Trials Regulation.
Marketing Authorization
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Our investigational COMP360 psilocybin treatment, as a new active substance indicated for the treatment of treatment-resistant depression, will have the option to be filed through the centralized procedure.
−Removed: Under the centralized procedure, the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human use, or the CHMP, which is the EMA’s committee that is responsible for human medicines, is responsible for conducting the assessment of whether a
−Removed: medicine meets the required quality, safety and efficacy requirements, and whether it has a positive risk/benefit profile.
+Added: Under the centralized procedure, the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human use, or the CHMP, which is the EMA’s committee that is responsible for human medicines, is responsible for conducting the assessment of whether a medicine meets the required quality, safety and efficacy requirements, and whether it has a positive risk/benefit profile.
Under the centralized procedure, the maximum timeframe for the evaluation of an MAA is 210 days from the receipt of a valid MAA, excluding clock stops when additional information or written or oral explanation is to be provided by the applicant in response to questions asked by the CHMP.
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If the CHMP accepts such a request, the timeframe of 210 days for assessment will be reduced to 150 days (excluding clock stops), but it is possible that the CHMP may revert to the standard time limit for the centralized procedure if it determines that the application is no longer appropriate to conduct an accelerated assessment.
−Removed: Now that the UK (which comprises Great Britain and Northern Ireland) has left the EU, Great Britain is no longer covered by centralized marketing authorizations (under the Northern Ireland Protocol, centralized marketing authorizations currently continue to be recognized in Northern Ireland).
−Removed: On January 1, 2024, a new international recognition framework was put in place by the MHRA, under which the MHRA may have regard to decisions on the approval of marketing authorizations made by the EMA and certain other regulators.
−Removed: The MHRA also has the power to have regard to marketing authorizations approved in EU Member States through decentralized or mutual recognition procedures with a view to more quickly granting a marketing authorization in the United Kingdom or Great Britain.
+Added: Now that the UK (which comprises Great Britain and Northern Ireland) has left the EU, Great Britain is no longer covered by EU centralized marketing authorizations.
+Added: On January 1, 2024, a new international recognition framework was put
+Added: in place by the MHRA, under which the MHRA may have regard to decisions on the approval of marketing authorizations made by the EMA and certain other regulators.
+Added: The MHRA also has the power to have regard to marketing authorizations approved in EU Member States through decentralized or mutual recognition procedures with a view to more quickly granting a marketing authorization in the United Kingdom.
The decentralized marketing authorization procedure allows an applicant to apply for simultaneous authorization in more than one EU Member State of medicinal products that have not yet been authorized in any EU Member State and that do not fall within the mandatory scope of the centralized procedure.
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The scheme is voluntary and eligibility criteria must be met for a medicine to qualify for PRIME.
−Removed: The PRIME scheme is open to medicines under development and for which the applicant intends to apply for an initial MAA through the centralized procedure.
+Added: The PRIME scheme is open to medicines under development and for which the applicant intends to apply for a MAA through the centralized procedure.
Eligible products must target conditions for which there is an unmet medical need (there is no satisfactory method of diagnosis, prevention or treatment in the EU or, if there is, the new medicine will bring a major therapeutic advantage) and they must demonstrate the potential to address the unmet medical need by introducing new therapy methods or improving existing ones.
Applicants will typically be at the exploratory clinical trial phase of development, and will have preliminary clinical evidence in patients to demonstrate the promising activity of the medicine and its potential to address to a significant extent an unmet medical need.
−Removed: In exceptional cases, applicants from the academic sector or SMEs (small and medium sized enterprises) may submit an eligibility request at an earlier stage of development if compelling non-clinical data in a relevant model provide early evidence of promising activity, and first in man studies indicate adequate exposure for the desired pharmacotherapeutic effects and tolerability.
+Added: In exceptional cases, applicants from the academic sector or SMEs (small and medium sized enterprises) may submit an eligibility request at an earlier stage of development if compelling non-clinical data in a relevant model provides early evidence of promising activity, and first in man studies indicate adequate exposure for the desired pharmacotherapeutic effects and tolerability.
If a medicine is selected for the PRIME scheme, the EMA:
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(i) the second applicant can establish that although their product is similar to the orphan medicinal product already authorized, the second product is safer, more effective or otherwise clinically superior;
−Removed: (ii) the marketing authorization holder for the authorized orphan product consents to the second orphan medicinal product application;
+Added: (ii) the marketing authorization holder for the authorized orphan product consents to the second medicinal product application;
or (iii) the marketing authorization holder for the authorized orphan product cannot supply enough orphan medicinal product.
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Data and Market Exclusivity
−Removed: In the EU, innovative medicinal products approved on the basis of a complete and independent data package qualify for eight years of data exclusivity upon grant of a marketing authorization and an additional two years of market exclusivity
−Removed: pursuant to Regulation (EC) No.
+Added: In the EU, innovative medicinal products approved on the basis of a complete and independent data package qualify for eight years of data exclusivity upon grant of a marketing authorization and an additional two years of market exclusivity pursuant to Regulation (EC) No.
726/2004, as amended, and Directive 2001/83/EC, as amended.
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The regulatory authorities may also impose specific obligations as a condition of the marketing authorization.
−Removed: minimization measures or post-authorization obligations may include additional safety monitoring, more frequent submission of PSURs, or the conduct of additional clinical trials or post-authorization safety studies.
+Added: Such risk-minimization measures or post-authorization obligations may include additional safety monitoring, more frequent submission of PSURs, or the conduct of additional clinical trials or post-authorization safety studies.
RMPs and PSURs are routinely available to third parties requesting access, subject to limited redactions.
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The advertising of prescription-only medicines to the general public is not permitted in the EU, or in the UK under the Human Medicines Regulations 2012.
−Removed: Although general requirements for advertising and promotion of medicinal products are established under EU Directive 2001/83/EC as amended, the details are governed by regulations in each EU Member State and can differ from one country to another.
+Added: Although general requirements for advertising and promotion of medicinal products
+Added: are established under EU Directive 2001/83/EC as amended, the details are governed by regulations in each EU Member State and can differ from one country to another.
The aforementioned EU rules are generally applicable in the EEA (which consists of the EU Member States plus Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein).
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The European Commission introduced legislative proposals in April 2023 that, if implemented, will replace the current regulatory framework in the EU for all medicines (including those for rare diseases and for children).
−Removed: The European Commission has provided the legislative proposals to the European Parliament and the European Council for their review and approval.
−Removed: In October 2023, the European Parliament published draft reports proposing amendments to the legislative proposals, which will be debated by the European Parliament.
+Added: The European Commission has provided the legislative proposals to the European Parliament and the European Council for their review and approval, and, in April 2024 the European Parliament proposed amendments to the legislative proposals.
Once the European Commission’s legislative proposals are approved (with or without amendment), they will be adopted into EU law.
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The TCA includes specific provisions concerning pharmaceuticals, which include the mutual recognition of GMP, inspections of manufacturing facilities for medicinal products and GMP documents issued, but does not provide for wholesale mutual recognition of UK and EU pharmaceutical regulations.
−Removed: At present, Great Britain has implemented EU legislation on the marketing, promotion and sale of medicinal products through the Human Medicines Regulations 2012 (as amended) (under the Northern Ireland Protocol, the EU regulatory framework currently continues to apply in Northern Ireland).
−Removed: Except in respect of the EU Clinical Trials Regulation, the regulatory regime in Great Britain therefore largely aligns with EU regulations, however it is possible that these regimes will diverge more significantly in future now that Great Britain’s regulatory system is independent from the EU and the TCA does not provide for mutual recognition of UK and EU pharmaceutical legislation.
−Removed: However, notwithstanding that there is no wholesale recognition of EU pharmaceutical legislation under the TCA, under a new international recognition procedure mentioned above which was put in place by the MHRA on January 1, 2024, the MHRA may take into account decisions on the approval of a marketing authorization from the EMA (and certain other regulators) when considering an application for a Great Britain marketing authorization.
+Added: At present, the UK has implemented EU legislation on the marketing, promotion and sale of medicinal products through the Human Medicines Regulations 2012 (as amended) (under the Northern Ireland Protocol, the EU regulatory framework with respect to medicines continued to apply in Northern Ireland for a period following Brexit).
+Added: Except in respect of the EU Clinical Trials Regulation, the regulatory regime in the UK therefore largely aligns with EU regulations, however it is possible that these regimes will diverge more significantly in future now that the UK’s regulatory system is independent from the EU and the TCA does not provide for mutual recognition of UK and EU pharmaceutical legislation.
+Added: However, notwithstanding that there is no wholesale recognition of EU pharmaceutical legislation under the TCA, under a new international recognition procedure mentioned above which was put in place by the MHRA on January 1, 2024, the MHRA may take into account decisions on the approval of a marketing authorization from the EMA (and certain other regulators) when considering an application for a the UK marketing authorization.
On February 27, 2023, the UK government and the European Commission announced a political agreement in principle to replace the Northern Ireland Protocol with a new set of arrangements, known as the “Windsor Framework”.
−Removed: This new framework fundamentally changes the existing system under the Northern Ireland Protocol, including with respect to the regulation of medicinal products in the UK.
−Removed: In particular, the MHRA will be responsible for approving all medicinal products destined for the UK market (i.e., Great Britain and Northern Ireland), and the EMA will no longer have any role in approving medicinal products destined for Northern Ireland.
−Removed: A single UK-wide marketing authorization will be granted by the MHRA for all medicinal products to be sold in the UK, enabling products to be sold in a single pack and under a single authorization throughout the UK.
−Removed: The Windsor Framework was approved by the EU-UK Joint Committee on March 24, 2023, so the UK government and the EU will enact legislative measures to bring it into law.
−Removed: On June 9, 2023, the MHRA announced that the medicines aspects of the Windsor Framework will apply from January 1, 2025.
+Added: The Windsor Framework was approved by the EU-UK Joint Committee on March 24, 2023, and the medicines aspects of the Windsor Framework have applied since January 1, 2025.
+Added: This new framework fundamentally changes the previous system under the Northern Ireland Protocol, including with respect to the regulation of medicinal products in the UK.
+Added: In particular, the MHRA is now responsible for approving all medicinal products destined for the UK market (i.e., Great Britain and Northern Ireland), and the EMA no longer has any role in approving medicinal products destined for Northern Ireland under the EU centralized procedure.
+Added: A single UK-wide marketing authorization will be granted by the MHRA for all novel medicinal products to be sold in the UK, enabling products to be sold in a single pack and under a single authorization throughout the UK.
+Added: In addition, the new arrangements require all medicines placed on the UK market to be labelled “UK only”, indicating they are not for sale in the EU.
Coverage, Pricing and Reimbursement
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Our product candidates may nonetheless not be considered medically necessary or cost-effective.
−Removed: If third-party payors do not consider a product to be cost-effective compared to other available therapies, they may not cover the product, after approval, as a benefit under their plans or, if they do, the
−Removed: level of payment may not be sufficient to allow a company to sell its products at a profit.
+Added: If third-party payors do not consider a product to be cost-effective compared to other available therapies, they may not cover the product, after approval, as a benefit under their plans or, if they do, the level of payment may not be sufficient to allow a company to sell its products at a profit.
A decision by a third-party payor not to cover a product could reduce physician utilization once the product is approved and have a material adverse effect on sales, our operations and financial condition.
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For example, in France, effective market access will be supported by agreements with hospitals and products may be reimbursed by the Social Security Fund.
−Removed: The price of medicines is negotiated with the Economic Committee for Health Products, or CEPS.
+Added: The price of medicines is negotiated
+Added: with the Economic Committee for Health Products, or CEPS.
There can be no assurance that any country that has price controls or reimbursement limitations for pharmaceutical products will allow favorable reimbursement and pricing arrangements for any of our product candidates.
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The federal Anti-Kickback Statute has been interpreted to apply to arrangements between manufacturers on one hand and prescribers, purchasers, and formulary managers on the other.
−Removed: A person or entity does not need to have actual knowledge of the
−Removed: federal Anti-Kickback Statute or specific intent to violate it to have committed a violation.
+Added: A person or entity does not need to have actual knowledge of the federal Anti-Kickback Statute or specific intent to violate it to have committed a violation.
Violations are subject to significant administrative, civil and criminal fines and penalties for each violation, plus up to three times the remuneration involved, imprisonment, and exclusion from government healthcare programs.
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or from knowingly concealing or knowingly and improperly avoiding or decreasing an obligation to pay money to the federal government.
−Removed: Manufacturers can be held liable under the FCA even when they do not submit claims directly to government payors if they are deemed to “cause” the submission of false or fraudulent claims.
+Added: Manufacturers can be held liable under the FCA even when they do not submit claims directly to government payors if they are deemed to “cause” the submission of
+Added: false or fraudulent claims.
The FCA also permits a private individual acting as a “whistleblower” to bring qui tam actions on behalf of the federal government alleging violations of the FCA and to share in any monetary recovery.
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state laws that require pharmaceutical companies to comply with the pharmaceutical industry voluntary compliance guidelines and other relevant compliance guidance promulgated by the federal government, such as the April 2003 Office of Inspector General Compliance Program Guidance for Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and/or the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America’s Code on Interactions with Healthcare Professionals;
−Removed: state laws that require the reporting of information related to drug pricing;
+Added: state laws that require the reporting of information related to
+Added: drug pricing;
state laws that require drug manufacturers to report information related to payments and other transfers of value to physicians and other healthcare providers or marketing expenditures and pricing information;
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It is possible that governmental authorities will conclude that our business practices do not comply with current or future statutes, regulations or case law involving applicable fraud and abuse or other healthcare laws and regulations.
−Removed: If our operations, including our arrangements with physicians and other healthcare providers and entities, such as our Centers of Excellence or therapists, are found to be in violation of any of such laws or any other governmental regulations that apply to us, we may be subject to significant penalties, including, without limitation, administrative, civil and criminal penalties, damages, fines, disgorgement, contractual damages, reputational harm, diminished profits and future earnings, the curtailment or restructuring of our operations, exclusion from participation in federal and state healthcare programs (such as Medicare and Medicaid), imprisonment, and additional oversight and reporting obligations if we become subject to a corporate integrity agreement or similar settlement to resolve allegations of non-compliance with these laws and the curtailment or restructuring of our operations, any of which could adversely affect our ability to operate our business and our financial results.
−Removed: If any of the physicians or other healthcare providers or entities with whom we expect to do business, including our Centers of Excellence and therapists, are found to be not in compliance with applicable laws, they may be subject to similar actions, penalties and sanctions.
+Added: If our operations, including our arrangements with physicians and other healthcare providers and entities, such as our Centers of Excellence or healthcare professionals providing psychological support in our clinical trials, are found to be in violation of any of such laws or any other governmental regulations that apply to us, we may be subject to significant penalties, including, without limitation, administrative, civil and criminal penalties, damages, fines, disgorgement, contractual damages, reputational harm, diminished profits and future earnings, the curtailment or restructuring of our operations, exclusion from participation in federal and state healthcare programs (such as Medicare and Medicaid), imprisonment, and additional oversight and reporting obligations if we become subject to a corporate integrity agreement or similar settlement to resolve allegations of non-compliance with these laws and the curtailment or restructuring of our operations, any of which could adversely affect our ability to operate our business and our financial results.
+Added: If any of the physicians or other healthcare providers or entities with whom we expect to do business, including our Centers of Excellence and healthcare professionals providing psychological support in our clinical trials, are found to be not in compliance with applicable laws, they may be subject to similar actions, penalties and sanctions.
Ensuring that our current and future business arrangements with third parties, and our business generally, comply with applicable healthcare laws and regulations, as well as responding to possible investigations by government authorities, can be time- and resource- consuming and can divert a company’s attention from its business.
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There is no obligation for a drug manufacturer to make its drug products available to eligible patients as a result of the Right to Try Act.
−Removed: On March 11, 2021, President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 into law, which eliminates the statutory Medicaid drug rebate cap, currently set at 100% of a drug’s average manufacturer price, for single source and innovator multiple source drugs, beginning January 1, 2024.
−Removed: Due to the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010, estimated budget deficit increases resulting from the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, and subsequent legislation, Medicare payments to providers will be further reduced starting in 2025 absent further legislation.
−Removed: These laws and regulations may result in additional reductions in Medicare and other healthcare funding and otherwise affect the prices we may obtain for any of our product candidates for which we may obtain regulatory approval or the frequency with which any such product candidate is prescribed or used.
+Added: On March 11, 2021, President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 into law.
+Added: Due to the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010, estimated budget deficit increases resulting from the American Rescue Plan of 2021, and subsequent legislation, Medicare payments to providers were further reduced starting on January 1, 2025;
+Added: however, legislation has been introduced in the U.S.
+Added: Congress that would, if enacted, reverse these payment reductions.
+Added: In addition to provider payment cuts under Medicare, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 also eliminated the statutory Medicaid drug rebate cap, previously set at 100% of a drug’s average manufacturer price, for single source and innovator multiple source drugs, beginning January 1, 2024.
+Added: These laws and regulations may result in additional reductions in Medicare and other healthcare funding available for healthcare providers and may otherwise affect the prices we may obtain for any of our product candidates for which we may obtain regulatory approval or the frequency with which any such product candidate is prescribed or used.
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, or IRA, includes several provisions that may impact our business to varying degrees, including provisions that reduce the out-of-pocket cap for Medicare Part D beneficiaries to $2,000 starting in 2025;
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If a product receives multiple orphan designations or has multiple approved indications, it may not qualify for the orphan drug exemption.
−Removed: The implementation of the IRA is currently subject to ongoing litigation challenging the constitutionality of the IRA’s Medicare drug price negotiation program.The overall impact that the IRA will have on our business and the healthcare industry in general is not yet known.
+Added: The implementation of the IRA is currently subject to ongoing litigation challenging the constitutionality of the IRA’s Medicare drug price negotiation program.
+Added: The overall impact that the IRA will have on our business and the healthcare industry in general is not yet known.
Moreover, payment methodologies may be subject to changes in healthcare legislation and regulatory initiatives.
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Congressional inquiries and proposed and enacted federal and state legislation designed to, among other things, bring more transparency to drug pricing, review the relationship between pricing and manufacturer patient programs, reduce the cost of drugs under Medicare, and reform government program reimbursement methodologies for pharmaceutical products.
−Removed: In addition, President Biden has issued multiple executive orders that have sought to reduce prescription drug costs.
−Removed: In February 2023, HHS also issued a proposal in response to an October 2022 executive order from President Biden that includes a proposed prescription drug pricing model that will test whether targeted Medicare payment adjustments will sufficiently incentivize manufacturers to complete confirmatory trials for drugs approved through FDA’s accelerated approval pathway.
−Removed: Although a number of these and other proposed measures may require authorization through additional legislation to become
−Removed: effective, and the Biden administration may reverse or otherwise change these measures, both the Biden administration and Congress have indicated that they will continue to seek new legislative measures to control drug costs.
−Removed: Although a number of these and other proposed measures may require authorization through additional legislation to become effective, and the Biden administration may reverse or otherwise change these measures, both the Biden administration and Congress have indicated that they will continue to seek new legislative measures to control drug costs.
+Added: In addition, President Biden issued multiple executive orders that have sought to reduce prescription drug costs.
+Added: At a federal level, President Trump reversed some of President Biden’s executive orders including rescinding Executive Order 14087 entitled “Lowering Prescription Drug Costs for Americans." President Trump may issue new executive orders designed to impact drug pricing.
+Added: Although any proposed measures may require authorization through additional legislation to become effective, and the Trump administration may reverse or otherwise change these measures, both the Trump administration and Congress have indicated that they will continue to seek measures to control drug costs.
At the state level, legislatures have increasingly passed legislation and implemented regulations designed to control pharmaceutical product pricing, including price or patient reimbursement constraints, discounts, restrictions on certain product access and marketing cost disclosure and transparency measures, and, in some cases, designed to encourage importation from other countries and bulk purchasing.
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Human Capital Management
−Removed: As a biotechnology company dedicated to accelerating patient access to evidence-based innovation in mental health.
−Removed: Our team is the key to our success, and we believe it is essential to invest in building an engaged, diverse, supported, and incentivized workforce who can help us achieve our vision of a world of mental wellbeing.
+Added: As a biotechnology company dedicated to accelerating patient access to evidence-based innovation in mental health, our team is the key to our success, and we believe it is essential to invest in building an engaged, inclusive, supported, and incentivized workforce who can help us achieve our vision of a world of mental wellbeing.
+Added: As of December 31, 2024, we had 166 employees, which represented a decrease of 11% compared to the prior year, of whom 125 employees are engaged in research and development activities and 41 employees are engaged in general administrative functions.
As of December 31, 2023, we had 186 employees, of whom 141 employees are engaged in research and development activities and 45 employees are engaged in general administrative functions.
−Removed: We had 181 employees as of December 31, 2022 and grew by 2.8% as of December 31, 2023.
As of December 31, 2024, 42% of our employees are located in the US, while the remaining 58% are located in the UK.
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• company-paid employee health care coverage, including access and financial support for a private mental health care in the UK;
−Removed: • a global employee assistance program run by certified counsellors, offering up to 18 therapy sessions per issue for team members and their families;
−Removed: • one-to-one confidential wellbeing check-ins, onboarding and offboarding with our wellbeing community lead;
+Added: • a global employee assistance program run by certified counselors, offering up to 10 therapy sessions per issue for team members and full access to online resources for their families;
+Added: • one-to-one confidential well-being check-ins, onboarding and off boarding with our well-being community lead;
• community circles, providing a forum for employees to discuss any topic with colleagues, providing open communication and support;
−Removed: • group health coaching series to help keep individuals on track towards their health goals;
−Removed: • team meetings periodically include wellbeing segments facilitated by our wellbeing community lead and we use wellbeing team surveys and manager-led discussions during team meetings to identify and overcome any wellbeing issues;
−Removed: • training for managers on how to address wellbeing issues in their teams and provide support;
+Added: • team meetings periodically include well-being segments facilitated by our well-being community lead and we use well-being team surveys and manager-led discussions during team meetings to identify and overcome any wellbeing issues;
+Added: • periodic training for managers on how to address well-being issues in their teams and provide support;
• access to a meditation app with weekly group meditation sessions;
−Removed: • weekly qualified employee-led yoga sessions;
• company-wide shutdown over the year-end holiday, to make it easier for team members to disconnect during their time off.
In 2023 we signed the StigmaFree pledge organized by the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), as part of our commitment to a company culture of openness, acceptance, and understanding about employees’ overall mental health and well-being.
+Added: In 2024, after a thorough and rigorous selection process, we were approved as a Corporate Sponsor of NAMI, enabling an even stronger partnership with them.
NAMI is the largest grassroots mental health organization in the United States dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness.
−Removed: Engagement, Culture and Values
−Removed: We aim to attract and retain people who are driven by our mission to help and empower those who are suffering with mental health challenges.
−Removed: We strive to live our values of compassion, boldness, inclusiveness, and rigor.
−Removed: In 2022 and 2023, we applied to be certified as a Most Loved Workplace by Best Practice Institute (BPI) and its Most Loved Workplaces® operation, which is a company that assesses and certifies a company as a workplace employees love based on internal surveys, external public ratings and interviews with corporate officials, ranking number 67 in the UK.
−Removed: The list recognizes companies that put respect, caring, and appreciation for their employees at the center of their business model.
−Removed: We continue to build a positive working culture by:
−Removed: • Holding periodic engagement surveys with employees and carrying out action plans to address areas for improvements.
−Removed: Our 2023 pulse survey demonstrated that we continue to maintain a very strong 52% net promoter score;
−Removed: according to Qualtrics XM Institute, a score of between 10 to 30% is good and a score of 30% or more is excellent;
−Removed: • Holding focus groups with volunteers from across our company to hear their views about what we are doing well as a company and what we could do better to improve engagement;
−Removed: • Holding periodic company-wide team meetings aimed to connect and receive updates from our CEO and the wider teams, with the opportunity for anonymous question and answer session with management;
−Removed: • Providing additional opportunities to stay connected in our hybrid working model, for learning and social occasions;
−Removed: • Holding periodic open ‘office hours’ with our chief executive officer and other members of the executive team;
−Removed: • Gathering input from new hires and employees who are leaving our company to understand what we can do better to improve our culture and engagement.
−Removed: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
−Removed: We are united in our resolve to build a safe, diverse, accepting, and inclusive culture in our workplace and have been actively involved in similar efforts in our communities.
−Removed: In 2023, we formed our Diversity Council, a cross-functional diverse group of employees empowered to embed diversity, equity and inclusion across our business.
−Removed: Focus areas of the Diversity Council include diversity in clinical trials, therapist diversity, digital accessibility, patient engagement, education and awareness and inclusive culture, recruitment, and retention.
−Removed: The council advanced a number of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in 2023, including:
−Removed: • Hosted awareness events, such as Black History Month, Hispanic Heritage Month and Pride Month;
−Removed: • Refreshed our global diversity, equity and inclusion policy.
−Removed: The policy covers topics like our practices and policies on recruiting talent, compensation, developing, and training employees.
−Removed: This policy seeks to support a diverse workforce and ensure that our team members are treated equitably;
−Removed: • Supported research through a grant to the Grady Trauma Project focused on exploring the healthcare needs and attitudes towards investigational psychedelic treatments in marginalized and underprivileged communities.
−Removed: The results were published in the Journal of Mood & Anxiety Disorders, and “Perceptions of Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Among Black Americans” is the first published study exploring Black Americans’ perceptions of psychedelic treatment;
−Removed: • Collaborated with Phase 3 TRD clinical trial sites to support diversity in recruitment of clinical trial participants to evaluate COMP360 across ethnicities, races, and genders and identified best practices and challenges to increasing representation in clinical trials;
−Removed: • Engaged patients through the Mental Health Experiences community, a private online group of people with personal experience of TRD.
−Removed: The community is made up of people from a range of backgrounds, including 42% ethnic minorities and 30% LBGTQ+.
−Removed: The community discusses different themes, such as the experience of living with depression and barriers to participating in clinical trials.
−Removed: Listening to people’s lived experiences and using targeted questions helps us understand the unmet needs of patients from various backgrounds and to focus on these needs as we work to develop new treatments;
−Removed: • Applied a diversity, equity and inclusion perspective to our brand refresh, ensuring our brand is accessible to those with visual impairments.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2023, our board had 40% female representation and 46% of our wider senior management team was female.
−Removed: Overall, our total female representation in the company as of December 31, 2023, was 64%, which is well above the 49% average according to the 2022 report by Biotechnology Innovation Organization.
Employee Development and Training
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We are committed to the continued development of our employees, and to support their growth.
−Removed: To help us identify, foster, and retain high performing employees, we have a range of resources and initiatives, including:
−Removed: • Job architecture, providing employees with guidance and clear pathways for developing and progressing their career and twice-yearly promotions cycle;
−Removed: • A process for performance and development goals that is tied to employees receiving feedback throughout the year and assessing individual performance and rewards at the end of the year;
−Removed: • Dedicated internal resources, including regular webinars to support employees’ personal development and career goals and embed development goals with support of mentoring and other development tools;
−Removed: • Talent reviews, a twice-yearly process to assess and calibrate talent for the purposes of rewards and development;
−Removed: • A learning curriculum of courses on offer delivered by external experts to develop specific skill areas;
−Removed: • An annual learning and development allowance for each employee to spend on personal development/job related training;
−Removed: • In-person quarterly half-day sessions to bring together our early career talent to network, learn, and socialize;
−Removed: • 1:1 coaching support to facilitate the re-integration of women returning from maternity leave.
+Added: To help us identify, foster, and retain high performing employees, we have a range of resources and initiatives, including talent reviews to assess and calibrate talent for the purposes of rewards and development, a process for performance and development goals that is tied to employees receiving feedback throughout the year and assessing individual
+Added: performance and rewards at the end of the year, and job architecture, providing employees with guidance and clear pathways for developing and progressing their career and twice-yearly promotions cycle.
Compensation and Benefits
+Added: Our compensation and benefits are designed to provide employees with total compensation packages that are competitive with those offered by our peers and other companies with which we compete for talent.
+Added: We evaluate our offerings on an annual basis to ensure competitiveness of our programs and adjust as needed.
We provide competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits for our employees.
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We also have an employee share purchase plan, under which eligible employees have the opportunity to buy our shares through payroll deductions every six months at a discount.
−Removed: Aligned with our values, in 2023, we launched a new policy for family and dependent care and refreshed Maternity (UK), Paternity (UK), Parental Leave (US), and Adoption Leave (UK), which provide support to our multi-generational diverse workforce to care for their families.
−Removed: We also facilitate a parent and carers group who support each other and recommend policy changes like these to management.
−Removed: Our compensation and benefits are designed to provide employees with total compensation packages that are competitive with those offered by our peers and other companies with which we compete for talent.
−Removed: We evaluate our offerings on an annual basis to ensure competitiveness of our programs and adjust as needed.
−Removed: Ways of Working
−Removed: Keeping our values in mind, we recognize that to be inclusive and compassionate, we should empower everyone to work in the ways that suit them best.
−Removed: Although many companies have reverted to mandatory office attendance, we have retained a hybrid working model since it is aligned with our values and it is an attractive feature of our employment value proposition.
−Removed: Our guidelines for ways of working set out core principles around what we expect from each other, rather than enforcing a rigid model.
−Removed: We look for the proof of that in our achievements, not in our working hours or location of work.
−Removed: We encourage employees to remain connected through virtual, casual and voluntary weekly meetups.
−Removed: Alongside our ways of working policy, we also have a work-from-home budget for employees to purchase items that will make working at home a more comfortable and ergonomic experience.
−Removed: We still recognize the importance of connecting face-to-face with colleagues for collaboration and social time in our communal spaces in London, New York, and San Francisco.
Corporate Information
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