Tag: Alzheimer's Association

TOKYO and CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 30, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Eisai Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Tokyo, CEO: Haruo Naito, “Eisai”) and Biogen Inc. (Nasdaq: BIIB, Corporate headquarters: Cambridge, Massachusetts, CEO: Christopher A. Viehbacher, “Biogen”) announced today that the two-year real-world study in the U.S of lecanemab (generic name, product name: LEQEBMI^®), an anti-Aβ protofibril* antibody, was presented at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC) 2025, held in Toronto, Canada and virtually. Only lecanemab fights AD in two ways – targeting both amyloid plaque and protofibrils*, which can impact tau downstream.

NEWTON, Mass., July 10, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Acumen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ABOS), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing a novel therapeutic that targets soluble amyloid beta oligomers (AβOs) for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), will present new findings at the upcoming Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC®) 2025 in Toronto. The presentations include a cost savings analysis of the use of pTau217 as a screening tool in Acumen’s Phase 2 ALTITUDE-AD trial of sabirnetug as well as a nonclinical study evaluating the relative selectivity of sabirnetug to targeting AβOs versus Aβ monomers. The conference will be held July 27-31, 2025, both in-person and online.