Franco-American strategic research partnership to develop Alzheimer's therapies

10 January 2018

Just as US pharma giant Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) says it is pulling out of the Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease discovery space, and Axovant Sciences (Nasdaq: AXON) reported a serious setback in its dementia program, a new Franco-American research partnership has been announced in this difficult sector, which has seen a number of other high-profile failures.

French pharma firm Servier and USA-headquartered biotech Treventis, both privately-owned, announced a strategic research partnership in targeting misfolded proteins implicated in neurodegenerative diseases.

The collaboration covers a large drug discovery program targeting both tau and amyloïde-β (Aβ), two key proteins involved in Alzheimer’s disease. This therapeutic strategy aims to provide patients with a drug that slows the progression of pathology in the brain, thereby minimizing functional decline through a disease-modifying mechanism.

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