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Pioneering Partnerships And Novel Trial Design Are Reshaping Repurposing In The CNS Space

Major Repurposing Projects Are Underway Across Multiple Disease Areas

 
• By Chloe Kent

Repurposing licensed drugs can be an affordable and effective way to bring new treatments to market, but initial efforts tend to lack funding from big pharma. In Vivo takes a closer look at repurposing projects across the central nervous system space, what it is that drives the work forward and how innovative trial design is changing the game.

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Highly anticipated results from the US National Institutes of Health’s Drug Repurposing for Effective Alzheimer’s Medicines (DREAM) initiative proved disappointing for the research community in October last year, as the study revealed that sildenafil and tadalafil were not suitable candidates for treating dementia.

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