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29/11/2022at 13:36

Axsome races for Alzheimer's agitation approval

A successful phase III study for the US-based biotech firm puts it neck and neck with Lundbeck, a Danish pharma firm that also has a candidate for the Alzheimer’s related disease under development.
Photo: Daniel Munoz
by albert rønning-andersson, translated by daniel pedersen

US-based biotech company Axsome Therapeutics has now come so far in the development of its candidate that soon, it may be able to reasonably announce that it has found a treatment for Alzheimer’s agitation, a disease suffered by 40–70% of all Alzheimer’s patients with no treatment options today.

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