Targeting tau starts to show results in Alzheimer's
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Executive Summary
Two compounds designed to tackle the tau pathology of Alzheimer's disease, TauRx Therapeutics' Rember and Allon Therapeutics' AL-108, have shown encouraging results in Phase II data presented at the International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease in Chicago.
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