CONFERENCE COVERAGE SERIES

Clinical Trials on Alzheimer’s Disease 2015

Barcelona, Spain

05 – 07 November 2015

Tools

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At the 8th Clinical Trials on Alzheimer’s conference held November 5-7 in Barcelona, 900 attendees traded results on trials from the closely watched Aβ antibodies aducanumab and gantenerumab to a long list of lesser-known therapeutic candidates. The most pressing issue discussed at this meeting was how to design trials to be able to see a drug effect in early AD, while the tools are still evolving. The field has learned much about the importance of rigorous dose-finding, exposure, and target engagement, but new frontiers have cropped up. How best to identify the right patient population, knowing how fast a given early-stage person is likely to progress, and measuring subtle improvement in barely impaired people have become the challenges of the day. To meet them, tools development is actively ongoing even as a larger clinical trials infrastructure is forming across both sides of the Atlantic.