A year af­ter stun­ning Chi­na OK, Shang­hai Alzheimer's drug­mak­er set to en­roll first US pa­tient — and the stakes are huge

Just as ex­perts are set to de­bate whether Bio­gen’s ad­u­canum­ab should be­come the first Alzheimer’s drug to be ap­proved in the US in al­most two decades, a ther­a­py that seized a con­di­tion­al OK in Chi­na late last year — shock­ing sci­en­tists around the world — is fi­nal­ly mak­ing head­way in the clin­ic.

The US arm of Shang­hai Green Val­ley’s glob­al Phase III tri­al has iden­ti­fied its first pa­tient, Bloomberg re­port­ed, and dos­ing will be­gin in four weeks.

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