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Accera Sees New Potential As It Renames, Expands To Asia To Progress Alzheimer’s Asset

 
• By Ian Haydock

The US bioventure Accera, hit by a Phase III failure for its lead candidate last year, is expanding into Asia and renaming itself as it remains hopeful of progressing its core investigational asset in a targeted population of Alzheimer’s disease patients.

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Accera Becomes Cerecin As It Expands To Singapore • Source: Shutterstock

Looking to overcome the failure of its lead development asset in a first Phase III trial in March 2017, US bioventure Accera Inc. is expanding into Asia and changing its name as part of a renewed effort to take forward the medium chain triglyceride molecule Tricaprilin in Alzheimer’s disease. 

The private US company, which has been based in Boulder, Colorado since its founding in 2001, has now become Cerecin and is building up operations in Singapore, where it sees new opportunities to tap investment potential, progress the

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