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Reassessing Alzheimer’s with Larry Goldstein, UCSD

33 min • 9 april 2019
There are drug trial failures. And there are drug trial failures.

The recent move by drug giant Biogen to halt their Alzheimer’s drug has not only been a setback for the company—their stock fell precipitously on the news—it’s also been a major setback for the whole research community focused on this disease. The Biogen trial was one of the last of the major drug companies with high hopes for a significant therapeutic step forward for the neurodegenerative disease. The last five years has seen one big pharma players after another throw in the towel.

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