How current Alzheimer's treatment failures are paving a new promising pathway

4 November 2022

An Expert View from RJ Tesi, co-founder and chief executive of INmune Bio.

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and related dementias are an enormous economic burden for taxpayers, patients, their families, medical systems, and society as a whole. To date, no truly efficacious drugs for AD have been developed; moreover, all new anti-AD drugs developed have failed. To succeed where previous drugs have failed in development, new approaches to treat AD are essential.

As an industry that has been stalled by groupthink, it is time to embrace new avenues in developing agents for cognitive and behavioral symptoms of AD combined with enhanced trial methods. The learnings from prior failures can help improve approaches to address the unmet needs of patients with AD for improved cognition and amelioration of neuropsychiatric symptoms.

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