Obama Alzheimer's 'roadmap' targets Genentech drug for 'landmark' prevention study
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
Researchers in the Alzheimer's disease community should quickly familiarize themselves with an experimental drug from US Roche unit Genentech called crenezumab, National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Dr Francis Collins declared on 15 May, in revealing a new public-private study collaboration between the US government, the South San Francisco-based company and the Arizona nonprofit Banner Alzheimer's Institute.
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