Neurodegenerative Diseases

News

Shares in uniQure have rocketed this morning, as it emerges that the FDA will not require it to run a new trial of Huntington's gene therapy AMT-130.

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Biogen has stopped development of Denali-partnered Parkinson's disease candidate BIIB122, after it failed to move the needle in a phase 2b trial.

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Biogen will advance its tau-targeting Alzheimer's disease drug diranersen into phase 3, even though it missed the main endpoint in a midstage trial.

R&D

In a new white paper, Lucid Strategy Consulting suggests three key themes for pharma strategists seeking market leadership in the Alzheimer's space.

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A new R&D project will try to develop assays for LRRK2, a biomarker linked to Parkinson's that has emerged as a major drug target in the disease.

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An international trial has started to see if a simple finger-prick blood test could predict Alzheimer's before symptoms start.