Ei­sai, Bio­gen bat­tered by con­tro­ver­sy over PhII Alzheimer's study af­ter post­ing pos­i­tive re­sults

At first blush, Ei­sai and Bio­gen post­ed the kind of promis­ing da­ta for BAN2401 that might have over­come some doubts about its po­ten­tial as a treat­ment for Alzheimer’s, a field marked by the wreck­age of re­peat­ed, high pro­file fail­ures. But in­stead of cheer­ing on ev­i­dence of suc­cess, a large group of an­a­lysts last night ze­roed in on a cru­cial change in the study that could have con­found­ed the da­ta pre­sent­ed — and now we have a brand new con­tro­ver­sy to add to the lit­er­a­ture of Alzheimer’s.

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