Alzheimer’s Update: Amyloid Hypothesis Lives On At Biogen, Lilly, Merck, Pfizer, Roche
Executive Summary
Biogen rose and fell based on the company’s latest aducanumab results, but the Clinical Trials on Alzheimer’s Disease meeting Dec. 8-10 showed that regardless of Lilly’s Phase III solanezumab failure, companies continue to invest in amyloid and other hypotheses, including BACE, gamma secretase and other programs.
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