The amyloid-targeting drug is years behind Biogen/Eisai’s aducanumab, but its subcutaneous administration and the GRADUATE studies’ design could give Roche’s gantenerumab an advantage.

Interim top-line data from CREAD 1 and 2 indicate crenezeumab is unlikely to meet its primary endpoints and the studies are being stopped, but a clinical study in Colombia in familial Alzheimer’s is set to continue.

The US FDA has slapped a partial clinical hold on Ipsen’s palovarotene clinical trials in rare bone disorders in children less than 14 years old, due to bone growth concerns.