New MedPredict Report Reveals Top Alzheimer's Experts' Insights On Diagnostics And Treatments In Development Pipeline

Main Category: Alzheimer's / Dementia
Also Included In: Neurology / Neuroscience;  Conferences;  Pharma Industry / Biotech Industry
Article Date: 13 Jun 2009 - 2:00 PDT

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MedPredict Market Research, a global provider of pharmaceutical competitive intelligence and market research, has published a new report entitled "Thought Leader Insight & Analysis: Alzheimer's Disease," designed to provide critical strategic insight for pharma and biotech companies with a stake in the market for diagnostics and treatments in this disease area.

MedPredict interviewed renowned Alzheimer's disease thought leaders to identify the most promising candidates in clinical development, as well as explore unmet needs. Interviews for this report were conducted following the 2009 American Academy of Neurology (AAN) conference.

"In this report, our panel of experts describes the clinical progress of the most interesting therapeutic and diagnostic candidates in the pipeline," according to Jeff Berk, MedPredict's president and lead author of this report. "The panel covers active and passive immunologic approaches that hold promise in prevention of Alzheimer's disease and treatment at the earliest stages of dementia."

"The panelists rank the most promising small molecules and antibodies that are targeting amyloid and plaques, offering their opinions on gamma-secretase inhibitors and modulators, beta-secretase inhibitors, Tau phosphorylation inhibitors, cardiovascular agents, anti-amyloids and aggregation inhibitors, histone deacetylases (HDACs), SIRT-1, metal chelators and drugs like Dimebon, specifically designed to enhance mental function," says Berk. "They also update the progress coming out of ADNI, the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, and describe how some amazing diagnostic tools have now been incorporated into the pivotal trials of these exciting therapeutics."

Companies/partnerships discussed in this report: Abbott, Allon, Astellas/CoMentis, AstraZeneca/Banner, AstraZeneca/Takeda, AstraZeneca/Targacept, Avid, Baxter, Bayer-Schering/Avid Radiopharmaceuticals, Boehringer Ingelheim/Ablynx, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Elan/Transition Therapeutics/AZ, Elan/Wyeth, Envivo, Eisai, Forest/Merz/Lundbeck/Daiichi-Sankyo, GE Healthcare, GlaxoSmithKline, Lilly, Lilly/Elan, Link, Myriad, Novartis, Oligomerix, Pfizer, Pfizer/Medivation, Prana, Roche/Memory, Satori, TauRx, TauTaTis, Transtech, and Wyeth.

About MedPredict

MedPredict maintains a proprietary database of over 1,000 global physician thought leaders. Based on primary interviews with these thought leaders, MedPredict publishes periodic therapeutic area reports to keep clients up-to-date on emerging trends and competitive activity. The reports include thought leader reactions to recent publications and presentations, as well as clinical, regulatory and marketing activity.

Source: MedPredict