PRAX

Praxis Precision Medicines is a drug development company focused on treating brain and nervous system disorders. The company is working on several medicines for conditions like epilepsy and essential tremor, with some of these drugs currently in late-stage testing. They use two main approaches to drug development: small molecules that patients can take as pills, and antisense oligonucleotides, which are larger molecules designed to change how genes work in the body. The company is based in Boston and was founded in 2015.