Ovid Therapeutics, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company, which engages in the development of medicines for patients and families living with rare neurological disorders. The company is headquartered in New York City, New York and currently employs 40 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2017-05-05. The firm is focused on improving the lives of people affected by certain epilepsies and brain conditions with seizure symptoms. The company is engaged in advancing a pipeline of novel, targeted small molecule candidates that modulate the intrinsic and extrinsic factors involved in neuronal hyperexcitability causative of seizures and other neurological symptoms. The company develops OV888 (GV101), a potent and highly selective ROCK2 inhibitor, for the potential treatment of lesions associated with cerebral cavernous malformations and other brain disorders; OV329, a GABA-aminotransferase inhibitor, a potential therapy for treatment-resistant seizures; and OV350, a direct activator of the KCC2 transporter, for the potential treatment of epilepsies and other psychiatric conditions. The company also has interest in the development and commercialization of soticlestat, which is a cholesterol 24-hydroxylase inhibitor for Dravet and Lennox-Gastaut syndromes.