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Japan – Eisai: DIAN-TU Selects Lecanemab as Background Anti-Amyloid Therapy in Clinical Trial Evaluating Investigational Therapy Targeting Tau for Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer’s Disease
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 an agreement with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA) to amend the clinical study (Tau NexGen) design to include a background anti-amyloid agent. The Tau NexGen clinical study was originally designed to focus on therapies that target tau. With increasing evidence from clinical studies showing that targeting amyloid can reduce biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), the Tau NexGen clinical trial leaders selected Eisai’s investigational anti-amyloid beta (Abeta) protofibril ... Read more