EMA Backs New Method For Measuring Alzheimer’s Disease In Trials

Evidence generated through an EU public-private funding initiative has resulted in a new biomarker method for measuring the level of Alzheimer’s disease in a person’s brain, which drug developers can use during clinical trials.

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The European Medicines Agency has endorsed a new method for quantifying how much amyloid plaque is visible on a patient’s brain scan, which could help researchers developing drugs for Alzheimer’s disease to identify patients for clinical trials and evaluate how well treatments are working.

The technique, known as the Centiloid method, grades the level of Alzheimer’s disease a person has by measuring the amyloid...

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