Alzheimer Europe’sJanuary 2021 newsletterbrings you the latest news on developments in the dementia field, across Europe and beyond.
Summaries of a few of our top stories appear below.
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On 11 January, the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly announced that its Phase II clinical trial evaluating donanemab in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) met its primary endpoint. Donanemab is an investigational antiamyloid therapy, targeting a modified form of beta amyloid called N3pG.
We continue to develop and improve our Clinical Trials Watch, which provides up-to-date accessible information on phase II and III clinical trials for dementia/Alzheimer’s treatment/prevention, and currently recruiting in Europe. In January 2021, two new Phase II trials have been added.
Federazione Alzheimer Italia has been instrumental in securing funding for Italy's national dementia plan. While the Plan has been in place since 2014, it had no associated funding. Specific funding will allow the country to start transforming objectives into concrete actions to support people with dementia.
LETHE is a personalised prediction and intervention model for early detection and reduction of risk factors causing dementia, based on AI and distributed Machine Learning. It is a four-year project funded under Horizon 2020.
Members of the European Alzheimer’s Alliance (EAA) have shown their support for the prioritisation of dementia at an EU level, following the publication of the Alzheimer Europe report, “Dementia as a European Priority – A Policy Overview”.
On 1 February, the members of the Neuronet (Efficiently Networking European Neurodegeneration Research) programme announced the launch of a pan-European Knowledge Base which brings together key information about the 18 projects of the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) neurodegeneration (ND) portfolio.
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