Year in review: EPR’s top stories of 2023
EPR wraps up the year with a selection of top stories from 2023, highlighting key trends and topics such as environmental monitoring (EM), quality (QA/QC), manufacturing, regulation and clinical development.
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EPR wraps up the year with a selection of top stories from 2023, highlighting key trends and topics such as environmental monitoring (EM), quality (QA/QC), manufacturing, regulation and clinical development.
AbbVie plans to acquire neuroscience specialist Cerevel Therapeutics for $45 per share, or around $8.7 billion.
Carrie Taylor, Director of Research & Development at BOC Sciences examines the key pathologies in Alzheimer’s and highlights several promising siRNA drug delivery systems that offer potential in helping to overcome the neurodegenerative disease.
Top-line Phase IIa data has demonstrated an allogeneic stem-cell therapy facilitated a lack of deterioration in cognitive signals in mild Alzheimer’s.
Recent breakthroughs in anti-Abeta immunotherapy for Alzheimer's have shown disease-modifying potential, with vaccination emerging as a promising approach, as AC Immune’s Marija Vukicevic, Yves Kremer, Marie Kosco-Vilbois and Andrea Pfeifer explain.
Evidence from a Phase I trial suggests that the tyrosine kinase inhibitor dasatinib in combination with quercetin clears amyloid from the brain and lowers inflammation in the blood.
In this article, Gareth Morgan, a life sciences partner at Pinsent Masons discusses how Leqembi validates the anti-amyloid approach for treating Alzheimer’s, and whether its recent regulatory authorisations could support fast-tracking approvals of other promising Alzheimer’s therapies.
The US FDA has given Fast Track designation to an active immunotherapy vaccine that “specifically targets the most toxic forms of amyloid beta (Abeta)”.
The next-generation of anti- amyloid beta therapeutics could be advanced by Biogen exercising the option to develop Denali’s antibody programme.
Here, Dr Michael Irizarry, Eisai’s Senior Vice President of Clinical Research and Deputy Chief Clinical Officer for Alzheimer’s Disease and Brain Health discusses its highly anticipated Alzheimer’s drug, lecanemab.
A complete response letter for Eli Lilly's accelerated approval submission of donanemab for early Alzheimer's has been issued by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
A Marketing Authorisation Application for lecanemab to treat Alzheimer's has been submitted to the European Medicines Agency.
Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi has been accepted via the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s Accelerated Approval pathway.
Full study results of Eisai’s Phase III Alzheimer's study suggest lecanemab could slow disease progression.
GBF announces the manufacturing of the recombinant protein - Alzheimer’s disease vaccine, AV-1980R, for use in clinical trials.