Early Alzheimer's Disease: Finding the Right Patients for Clinical Trials and Beyond, New Webinar Hosted by Xtalks

TORONTO, May 8, 2018 (Newswire.com) - Despite considerable efforts by biopharmaceutical companies, late-stage trial failures have plagued the drug development process for targeting Alzheimer’s disease. So what’s the problem?

New approaches to target selection and treatment strategy are needed to focus on earlier stages of disease prior to the extensive neurodegeneration resulting in dementia. A 2018 guidance from the U.S. FDA outlines current diagnostic criteria and definitions for the stages of early Alzheimer’s disease and suggests possible primary endpoints that may be appropriate to serve as the basis for drug approval. The approaches to trial design suggested in the guidance provide exciting new opportunities for drug development but also raise unique challenges to the execution of such trials. One major challenge is finding the right patients for early stage Alzheimer’s disease clinical trials.

In this live webinar, Dr. Kenton Zavitz, director of clinical affairs at Cambridge Cognition, and Dr. Robert Smith, consultant neuropsychologist, will discuss the issues surrounding the identification of patients for these early Alzheimer’s disease trials and will suggest potential solutions and strategies to facilitate both clinical development as well as drug commercialization.

Join the live presentation on Tuesday, May 22, 2018, at 11 a.m. EDT (4 p.m. BST/UK). For more information about this complimentary webinar, visit Early Alzheimer’s Disease: Finding the Right Patients for Clinical Trials and Beyond.

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