Author: isidrot40586
Eisai’s Anti-amyloid Beta Protofibril Antibody Lecanemab Selected as the Background Therapy for the Tau Nexgen Study
Eisai Co., Ltd. announced today that the Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network Trials Unit (DIAN-TU), led by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has enrolled the first subject in the phase II/III study (Tau NexGen study). The study will assess the effect of Eisai’s investigational anti-microtubule binding region (MTBR) tau antibody E2814, in dominantly inherited Alzheimer’s disease (DIAD). People who have genetic mutations of DIAD are known to develop Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and will likely develop symptoms at around the same age their affected parents did, often in their 50s, 40s or even 30s. The major AD pathologies are ... Read more