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A European Medicines Agency (EMA) committee has voted against approving Biogen’s Aduhelm (aducanumab) as a treatment for Alzheimer’s disease. The EMA’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use, known as CHMP, is expected to issue a formal ruling based on this so-called negative trend vote after its meeting in…

Treatment with Aduhelm (aducanumab) showed a significant correlation with lower blood levels of p-tau181, a disease biomarker, and lesser cognitive and functional decline in Alzheimer’s patients, according to a recent data analysis of two Phase 3 clinical trials. The data, analyzed from around 7,000 blood samples collected from more than…

AC Immune has announced it will extend its partnership with researchers at the University of Pennsylvania to further study the mechanisms underlying disease-causing changes in  the transactive response DNA binding protein 43 kDa (TDP-43). Specifically, company researchers and those with the university’s Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research at the Perelman School of Medicine…

The MassAITC project was recently launched to focus on using artificial intelligence (AI) to improve in-home care for older adults and others with Alzheimer’s disease, with the help of a five-year, $20-million grant from the National Institute on Aging, a part of the National Institutes of Health. MassAITC,…

The first patient has been recruited, in Finland, for Alzinova AB’s Phase 1b clinical trial testing its ALZ-101 vaccine for Alzheimer’s disease, the company announced. Alzinova AB, a Swedish biopharma company, is working to develop treatments for Alzheimer’s that specifically target amyloid-beta oligomers — chains of several single…

A biological framework called the “microcompetition model” may explain why people infected with herpes simplex 1 (HSV1) are at increased risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. “These dynamics explain the observed connection reported in many studies between the virus and Alzheimer’s disease, and provide a framework for further investigations,” researchers…

It took seven years from the time she started showing symptoms for Sophia Rodriguez’s mother to receive a confirmed diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease. After her death 14 years later, Rodriguez can’t help but wonder how things might have been different had her mother received an earlier diagnosis. Early diagnosis…

Detailed molecular signatures in three mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease at different disease stages allowed for identification of four approved medicines that may be potential Alzheimer’s treatments, a study revealed. The four medications that demonstrated efficiency are now used to treat hypertension (high blood pressure) and inflammation in humans.

In a subset of patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s and evidence of severe gum disease due to P. gingivalis infection, treatment with atuzaginstat (COR388) appeared to slow their cognitive decline, according to results from the Phase 2/3 GAIN clinical trial. Across all treated study patients, however, atuzaginstat’s use over about one year failed…

Vivoryon Therapeutics is looking to enroll patients at different stages of Alzheimer’s disease for two ongoing, Phase 2 trials evaluating the safety and efficacy of its investigational oral treatment varoglutamstat. The therapy candidate has shown evidence, in earlier trials, of improving cognition, memory, and attention in Alzheimer’s patients, with…