Alzheimer's Disease: Learning the Lessons Of The Past To Prepare For The Future

.leftNav1 { width: 750px; }.midNav { display: none; } Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of dementia among the elderly, accounting for between 60% and 80% of cases in the US, Japan, and five major EU markets (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the UK). Despite decades of heavy investment in research, effective treatments for this cognitive disease are still few and AD has become a graveyard for a lot of promising drugs and billions of R&D dollars.

No approved treatment has been able to halt the underlying disease processes in the brain in AD patients, and no new treatment has been approved at all in the last decade in this field.Research, and the development of new therapies, has been fraught by a large number of late-stage, high-profile failures in recent years and a vast number of asset suspensions in the earlier stages of development, too.

According to data held by BioMedTracker (BMT), the AD pipeline in the US includes 47 Phase I products that have been suspended or placed on a program hold. Of these 47 drugs, AD was the lead indication for 24 of them

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