Genen­tech dou­bles down on its PhI­II Alzheimer’s cam­paign for crenezum­ab

Roche’s big biotech group Genen­tech is dou­bling down on one of the most promi­nent drugs in late-stage de­vel­op­ment for Alzheimer’s. The com­pa­ny is launch­ing a sec­ond Phase III study of crenezum­ab, ac­cord­ing to its part­ners at AC Im­mune $ACIU, in search of pos­i­tive da­ta in a field lit­tered with the wreck­age of ear­li­er clin­i­cal crash­es.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors for the CREAD2 study will now set out to re­cruit 750 pa­tients with pro­dro­mal or mild Alzheimer’s to test the drug, an­oth­er an­ti-amy­loid be­ta drug de­signed to sweep out tox­ic for­ma­tions that are be­lieved by many to cause the mem­o­ry-wast­ing ill­ness.

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