AbbVie targets tau again in Voyager Alzheimer's tie-up

20 February 2018

Developing an effective new treatment for Alzheimer’s disease has become the Mount Everest of pharma, with ambitious companies setting off into clinical trials with the best of intentions but unable to reach the summit of late-stage success.

Despite the setbacks and lost billions, biopharma is not giving up, as evidenced by the US drugmaker AbbVie’s (NYSE: ABBV) latest investment into a research collaboration with the clinical stage gene therapy company Voyager Therapeutics (Nasdaq: VYGR).

The collaboration will include development of gene therapies consisting of vectors to deliver monoclonal antibodies to the brain directed against tau, the protein that some drug developers are targeting as the potential cause of Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases.

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