Takeda has made a strong play for a stake in the Alzheimer’s disease market, paying $100 million upfront for an option on AC Immune’s amyloid-targeting immunotherapy.
After almost 18 years of collaboration, Roche’s Genentech unit has ended a collaboration with AC Immune on Alzheimer’s disease therapies, handing back rights to two antibo
In May, another amyloid targeting drug for Alzheimer's disease – AC Immune and Roche's crenezumab – missed the mark in another clinical trial and looked destined for the scrap heap like so
The litany of failed trials of amyloid-targeting drugs for Alzheimer's disease has added another verse, as Roche concedes that its crenezumab candidate was unable to slow cognitive decline
The first patients are now being treated as part of a first-in-human trial of a vaccine, administered as a nasal spray, that aims to slow down the progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD).
Shares in AC Immune leaped today after the company said its tau-targeting Alzheimer's disease candidate semorinemab hit one of its objectives in a phase 2 trial, although it missed another.