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Innovations & Challenges in Brain Health

PM360

They are difficult to diagnose early in a disease, the regulatory endpoints are often unprecedented and challenging, and many drugs struggle to get into the brain. The downside is that it also keeps most potential drug treatments from reaching the brain. healthcare system over $800 billion annually.

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Paving the way for anti-Abeta active immunotherapy

European Pharmaceutical Review

Limitations of monoclonal antibody therapies Regulatory approvals from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for aducanumab and lecanemab – and likely very soon for donanemab also – opened a route for different therapeutic modalities and other relevant disease targets, such as tau.

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Primate models in pharma: What the future holds

Pharmaceutical Technology

Pharmaceutical research has long relied on non-human primate models for early-stage discoveries, but their use continues to cause controversy. However, according to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), non-human primates are still the most scientifically relevant large model to test biologic drugs for safety.

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