Moving towards early clinical trials for amyloid-targeted therapy in Alzheimer's disease

A recent article in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery (Nature Rev. Drug Discov. 11, 657–660; 2012)1 highlighted the outcome of the two largest Alzheimer's disease drug development programmes to date. Results from the Phase III clinical trials of two monoclonal antibodies — bapineuzumab and solanezumab — that target amyloid-β indicated little clinical benefit of immunological attack on amyloid-β at the dementia stage of sporadic disease2 (see the 12...