Aduhelm Approval Is Breakthrough For Neurimmune, Company Which Discovered It

Royalties Will Fuel R&D Expansion

The co-founder of the Swiss company which discovered aducanumab looks back over its 20 year wait for approval, and ahead to future growth plans.

University of Zurich
Neurimmune was launched as a spin-out from the University of Zurich in 2006. • Source: Alamy

The US approval of Biogen and Eisai’s Alzheimer’s treatment Aduhelm (aducanumab) may have proven controversial in the biopharma sector, but it has given one small Swiss biotech, Neurimmune, a long-awaited breakthrough moment.

The University of Zurich spin-out discovered aducanumab back in 2004 and licensed the monoclonal antibody to Biogen three years later

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