CVie Therapeutics Limited

About CVie Therapeutics Limited

CVie Therapeutics Limited is a Taiwan-based joint venture founded in 2013 by Lee's Pharmaceutical Holdings Limited and renowned venture capitals from the US and Taiwan. It is a stand-alone drug development company specialized in cardiovascular diseases. CVie currently owns two phase IIb assets that target cardiovascular diseases with significant unmet medical need. Rostafuroxin is a novel precision medicine targeting hypertensive patients with certain genetic profiles with better efficacy and safety than conventional therapies. Istaroxime is a first-in-class luso-inotropic medicine for the treatment of acute heart failure and will have fewer adverse effects than conventional inotropes, namely, increased heart rate, arrhythmia, increased oxygen consumption, hypotension, etc.
YEAR FOUNDED:
2013
LEADERSHIP:
CEO: Dr. Benjamin Li
COO: Lit-Fui Lau