Lindsey Shapiro, PhD,  science writer—

Sciensus Rare, a Dutch healthcare group, was given rights to distribute CogniCann, MGC Pharmaceutical’s cannabinoid-based investigative treatment for people with dementia and Alzheimer’s disease in Europe, should it be approved for commercial use or use in select early access programs. The agreement stipulates that Sciensus Rare will have four…

NNI-362, Neuronascent’s investigational treatment for Alzheimer’s disease, was safe and reduced blood levels of an Alzheimer’s biomarker in a Phase 1a trial of the therapy in healthy, older adults. The primary goal of the trial (NCT04074837), which enrolled 56 adults between the ages of 50 and 72, was…

Treatment with the investigational candidate SAGE-718 was generally well-tolerated and associated with cognitive improvements in people with Alzheimer’s disease, according to preliminary results from the LUMINARY Phase 2 clinical trial. The therapy’s developer, Sage Therapeutics, presented these findings in a talk, titled “SAGE-718 in…

Roche is launching a Phase 3 clinical trial to evaluate the ability of its investigational antibody therapy, gantenerumab, to slow Alzheimer’s progression in people with early signs of the disease, the company announced. Called SKYLINE (NCT05256134), the trial is now recruiting 1,200 cognitively unimpaired participants between…