Medicines for Addiction
Adial is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the treatment and prevention of addictions and other unmet medical needs.
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Adial Pharmaceuticals Successfully Completes Manufacturing of Demonstration Batch Production, Enabling Clinical and Registration Production for AD04 Planned Phase 3 Trial
April 22, 2026
Demonstration batch production achieves all prespecified test specifications for dissolution, content uniformity, blend uniformity meeting regulatory requirements to start clinical drug product production GLEN ALLEN, Va., April 22, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Adial Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADIL) (“Adial” or the “Company”), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing therapies for the treatment and prevention of […]
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Addiction Experts Highlight the Need for Non-Abstinence-Based Therapies to Treat Alcohol Use Disorder in Adial Pharmaceuticals Key Opinion Leader Webinar.
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Managing Through Mixed Trial Results And An Economic Downturn
Ben Comer
Chief Editor, Life Science Leader
November 1, 2022
What would Jack Welch do? Cary Claiborne knows the answer from nearly 15 years working at GE and GE Capital, during a time that overlapped closely with Welch’s tenure as CEO. In August, Claiborne himself became CEO of Adial Pharma, a Charlottesville, VA-based biopharmaceutical company with a novel approach to treating alcohol use disorder (AUD). Claiborne faces several distinct challenges: mixed topline results from a Phase 3 trial of lead candidate AD04, the potential need to fund and conduct another trial prior to seeking regulatory approval, and managing the company through a difficult economic downturn. Lessons learned during formative work experiences at GE, the first place Claiborne worked after graduating from Rutgers University in 1982, have followed him through executive-level financial roles in industries including telecoms, retail, energy, renewable fuels, and biopharmaceuticals.
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When Policy Finally Catches Up to the Science on Alcohol Addiction
03/05/2026
Inside Congress’s recent directive to the FDA on AUD and the Administration’s push for modern, patient-centered alcohol treatments.
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Our lead investigational drug candidate, AD04, is a genetically targeted, serotonin-3 receptor antagonist, therapeutic agent for the treatment of Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) and is currently being investigated for the potential treatment of AUD in patients with certain target genotypes, which are to be identified using the Company’s proprietary companion diagnostic genetic test.
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