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Interview: AC Immune CEO Reflects On Alzheimer's R&D Post-CREAD

 
• By John Davis

The recent failure of the CREAD studies to show a therapeutic effect for crenezumab in Alzheimer’s disease stunned developers. However, an ongoing clinical study of the MAb, and a series of other innovations being explored at Switzerland’s AC Immune, might still provide answers to this intractable condition.  

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Andrea Pfeifer, CEO of AC Immune

The lack of efficacy of the investigational monoclonal antibody, crenezumab, at interim analysis in two Phase III studies, CREAD-1 and CREAD-2, in Alzheimer’s disease came as a shock to the drug’s originator, AC Immune SA. The Jan. 30, 2019 announcement by collaborator, Roche, “was a great disappointment,” says the Swiss biotech’s co-founder and CEO, Andrea Pfeifer.

“I have never seen a pivotal trial better prepared for than this,” said Pfeifer, in an interview with Scrip, in which she spoke about possible explanations for the CREAD failures,...

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