About Filana Therapeutics Inc
Filana Therapeutics, Inc. is an American pharmaceutical company based in Austin, Texas. The company was developing simufilam, an oral-tablet drug candidate for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. Development of simufilam was discontinued in November 2024 after it failed to show clinical benefit in phase III clinical trials. In June 2024, the United States Department of Justice charged an advisor to Cassava Hoau-Yan Wang, with fraud over research results related to the experimental drug.