Novo Nordisk’s semaglutide has failed to reduce the cognition deficit in two Phase III Alzheimer’s trials, dimming GLP-1 hopes. Anti-amyloid and combination therapies remain key for slowing decline.
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Melatonin shows promise in Alzheimer’s treatment by restoring circadian rhythms and reducing neurodegenerative symptoms, researchers have demonstrated in a groundbreaking study.
British company Sitala Bio Ltd, founded in 2021 by NLRP3 inflammasome expert Matt Cooper, is paying US$670m and giving up to 10% of its shares to Chinese company Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical Group Co. Ltd. in exchange for the development and marketing rights to the low-molecular-weight inflammation blocker FXS6837.
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 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.
ALS specialist NeuroSense Therapeutics Ltd announces it will be collaborating with Swiss Lonza AG to identify exosome-based biomarkers to advance theranostics in neurodegeneration.
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.
Alzheimer’s specialist AstronauTx Ltd has closed a £48m Series A financing to create new treatments for Alzheimer’s diseas
A Belgian-British research team has identified the human protein underlying necroptosis of human brain cells in Alzheimer’s mice and stopped cell death.


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