Eisai Refocuses AiM As It Builds US Immuno-Dementia Research

Amid multiple industry drug failures in the sector, Eisai is opening a new US research facility to discover innovative therapies for dementia based on a long-standing immunology hypothesis.

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EISAI INVESTIGATES IMMUNO APPROACH TO DEMENTIA • Source: Shutterstock

Despite - or perhaps because of - multiple recent industry failures in the search for an effective drug against Alzheimer's disease (AD), Eisai Co. Ltd. is pushing ahead with a new research initiative in the US that will explore an immune approach to treating this and other forms of dementia.

The Japanese firm is establishing a Center for Genetics Guided Dementia Discovery (G2D2) in Cambridge, Massachusetts that plans to use...

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