Groundbreaking Alzheimer's prevention trial announced, as US debuts AD program

17 May 2012

A collaboration of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), Banner Alzheimer's Institute (BAI), University of Antioquia in Colombia and Swiss drug major Roche’s (ROG: SIX) subsidiary Genentech has announced the first-ever prevention trial in cognitively healthy individuals who are destined to develop Alzheimer's disease because of their genetic history.

This groundbreaking study - the first to investigate whether an anti-amyloid treatment can stave off the disease - will span two countries and help launch a new era of prevention research in the urgent fight against Alzheimer's.

The $100 million trial is the cornerstone of a new international collaborative, the Alzheimer's Prevention Initiative (API), formed to accelerate the evaluation of promising but unproven prevention therapies

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