Vivoryon Gazes Into The Abyss

A comprehensive mid-stage failure in Alzheimer’s leaves the company with very faint hopes.  

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A biotech developing a single asset is engaged in a high-risk business, and doubly so when that asset is intended to treat Alzheimer’s disease. Today Vivoryon Therapeutics N.V. lost this gamble, disclosing the total failure of varoglutamstat in its European Phase II trial in early Alzheimer’s, VIVIAD.

Key Takeaways
  • Vivoryon’s glutaminyl cyclase inhibitor varoglutamstat has failed in a European Phase II trial

All hope for Vivoryon now rests on whether a parallel US-based Phase II study, VIVA-MIND, can succeed. This has different...

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