Tag Archive for: Alzheimer’s

After Sangamo Therapeutics Inc. presented an epigenetic ZFN-based repressor at ASGCT 2024 that reduces the expression of the tau protein in the hippocampus by 95% in Alzheimer’s models, Roche’s US subsidiary Genentech has licensed the experimental gene therapy.

Swiss AC Immune and its partner Janssen Pharmaceuticals Inc have been granted FDA Fast Track Designation for their active anti-pTau vaccine ACI-35.030/JNJ-2056 to treat Alzheimer’s disease.

© AC Immune

AC Immune and Takeda have inked an exclusive option license agreement for ACI-24.060, a first-in-class active immunotherapy designed to delay or slow Alzheimer’s disease progression.

Neurosense Therapeutics targets Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease but is most advanced in ALS. © Neurosense Therapeutics Ltd

ALS specialist NeuroSense Therapeutics Ltd announces it will be collaborating with Swiss Lonza AG to identify exosome-based biomarkers to advance theranostics in neurodegeneration.

AC Immune at the EPFL Innovation Park © AC Immune

Genentech, Roche’s US subsidiary, is ending its decades-long collaboration with AC Immune SA after disappointing study results. It has handed the global rights to Crenezumab and Semorinemab back to the Lausanne-based biotech.

Astrocytes superimposed on a brain brighter cropped. © AstronauTx Ltd

Alzheimer’s specialist AstronauTx Ltd has closed a £48m Series A financing to create new treatments for Alzheimer’s diseas

Diagram of a normal brain compared to the brain of a person with Alzheimer's. © Garrondo - wikipedia.org

A Belgian-British research team has identified the human protein underlying necroptosis of human brain cells in Alzheimer’s mice and stopped cell death.

Eli Lilly and Company's headquarters © Momoneymoproblemz/wikimedia com

Eli Lilly’s Alzheimer’s drug donanemab has speedy removed amyloid plaques in a pivotal Phase III trail halting disease progression for one year in half of patients.

Founding team of Neotiv GmbH in 2018. © Guido Werner/GWP

German Neotiv GmbH hat closed a €10m seed financing to speed-up product launch of its early diagnosis app for Alzheimer’s disease