EIP Phar­ma flies in­to a high-risk PhI­Ib Alzheimer’s study fu­eled with $20.5M from bil­lion­aire Len Blavat­nik’s Ac­cess In­dus­tries

Un­de­terred by the string of fail­ures plagu­ing Alzheimer’s drug de­vel­op­ment, a young start­up based in Cam­bridge, MA has tapped an un­con­ven­tion­al source for $20.5 mil­lion to ad­vance a re­pur­posed drug in the clin­ic.

The new funds — com­ing from bil­lion­aire Len Blavat­nik’s Ac­cess In­dus­tries — will pow­er EIP Phar­ma’s Phase IIb study of ne­flamapi­mod, a p38 ki­nase in­hibitor in-li­censed from Ver­tex Phar­ma. Named RE­VERSE-SD, the high-risk tri­al will mea­sure im­prove­ment in episod­ic mem­o­ry as a pri­ma­ry end­point and have sev­er­al sec­ondary end­points in­clud­ing Clin­i­cal De­men­tia Rat­ing Scale Sum-of-Box­es, Wech­sler Mem­o­ry Scale, and spinal flu­id bio­mark­ers of dis­ease pro­gres­sion.

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