Lundbeck Breaks Into MAb Development, Adds To Suite Of Parkinson's Candidates

Denmark's mid-sized biopharma, Lundbeck, has taken another potential Parkinson's disease therapeutic into early clinical studies, the third this year, and this time it's a monoclonal antibody, not a small molecule.  

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Denmark's mid-sized pharmaceutical company, Lundbeck Inc., has moved its first-ever monoclonal antibody into clinical studies by taking the anti-alpha-synuclein antibody, Lu AF82422, into the clinic, joining a handful of MAb-based therapies that are being evaluated by biopharma companies in early-stage clinical studies for Parkinson's disease.

Lundbeck is well known as a specialty developer of drugs for psychiatric and neurological disorders, and the aging antidepressant, Cipralex/Lexapro...

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