The Long Game In Dementia Diagnosis Can Be Laced With Short-Term Wins

An Interview With Alison Howie, Chief Commercial Officer Of NeuroImaging Company Ixico

IXICO has been developing medical image analysis and digital health data analytics to help pharma companies better understand how to develop so-far largely elusive therapies for neurological diseases. It is a game of skill, patience and long-term application, but also an environment with short-term opportunities, as IXICO’s Alison Howie explains.

Is there a harder problem in science than diagnosing and treating forms of dementia? If it was a simple solution, it would have been cracked by now, said Alison Howie, chief commercial officer of neuromaging and data analysis company Ixico Ltd.

While IXICO’s goal is early, pre-symptomatic diagnosis, the company is aware of the long-term challenge of delivering that scientific and commercial breakthrough, and has been flexible in adjusting its diagnosis and therapy goals, as well as its methods, over the last 15 years of activity for the company

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