Aducanamab helps reduce amyloid plaques in Alzheimer’s patients who receive a gradually increasing dose of the therapy, its developer,…
Iqra Mumal, MSc
Iqra holds a MSc in Cellular and Molecular Medicine from the University of Ottawa in Ottawa, Canada. She also holds a BSc in Life Sciences from Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada. Currently, she is completing a PhD in Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology from the University of Toronto in Toronto, Canada. Her research has ranged from across various disease areas including Alzheimer’s disease, myelodysplastic syndrome, bleeding disorders and rare pediatric brain tumors.
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Articles by Iqra Mumal, MSc
A new test developed by researchers at UC San Francisco and UC San Diego can better predict which…
The Ontario Neurodegenerative Disease Research Initiative (ONDRI) was designed by Ontario neuroscientists to improve early diagnosis and treatment of neurodegenerative…
Axovant Sciences said its Phase 3 MINDSET clinical trial of the investigational therapy intepirdine did not meet the study’s primary goal.
Researchers have found a connection between an infection with the parasite Toxoplasma gondii and neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s. The study, “…
Caprion Biosciences Inc. is partnering with a public-private organization known as the Biomarkers Consortium to study whether biomarkers…
Consuming alcoholic beverages on a daily or near-daily basis was linked to a cognitively healthy and longer life in older adults in…
A recent study in mice showed that BACE inhibitors not only reduce cerebral amyloid-beta (Aβ) levels, but they also may…
Expression of the protein ANK1 (ankyrin repeat domain-containing protein) is four fold higher in the microglia of patients with Alzheimer’s disease…
Lundbeck, a global pharmaceutical company specializing in therapies for neurological disorders, has obtained the rights to IBC’s (ImmunoBrain…