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Alzheimer’s Disease Duration and Outcome Vary According to Ethnoracial Groups, Study Finds

Hispanic-American patients with Alzheimer’s disease tend to live significantly longer after disease onset and with milder cognitive decline than African-Americans and non-Hispanic whites, a study reports. The study, “Ethnoracial differences in Alzheimer’s disease from the FLorida Autopsied Multi-Ethnic (FLAME) cohort,” was published in the journal Alzheimer’s & Dementia.

AlzProtect’s Candidate Therapy AZP2006 Well-tolerated in Healthy Volunteers, Phase 1 Trial Shows

A Phase 1 clinical trial in healthy volunteers for investigational therapy AZP2006 — an oral medicine that is meant to clear accumulations of toxic proteins in Alzheimer’s disease and progressive supranuclear palsy — has shown positive results, says the therapy’s developer, AlzProtect. Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) is a rare, progressive disease…

Denali–Sanofi Partnership Dosing Alzheimer’s Patients in DNL747 Clinical Trial

Denali Therapeutics has begun dosing patients in its Phase 1b clinical trial of DNL747 as a treatment for Alzheimer’s disease. “We are excited to advance DNL747 in a second neurodegeneration indication based on Phase 1 healthy volunteer data regarding DNL747’s safety profile, CNS [central nervous system] penetration, and target engagement, at the studied doses,”…