Building a roadmap for developing combination therapies for Alzheimer's disease

Expert Rev Neurother. 2015 Mar;15(3):327-33. doi: 10.1586/14737175.2015.996551.

Abstract

Combination therapy has proven to be an effective strategy for treating many of the world's most intractable diseases. A growing number of investigators in academia, industry, regulatory agencies, foundations and advocacy organizations are interested in pursuing a combination approach to treating Alzheimer's disease. A meeting co-hosted by the Accelerate Cure/Treatments for Alzheimer's Disease Coalition, the Critical Path Institute and the Alzheimer's Association addressed challenges in designing clinical trials to test multiple treatments in combination and outlined a roadmap for making such trials a reality.

Keywords: Alzheimer’ disease; co-development; collaboration; combination therapy; novel therapy.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Alzheimer Disease / drug therapy*
  • Animals
  • Clinical Trials as Topic
  • Disease Models, Animal
  • Drug Therapy, Combination
  • Humans
  • Information Dissemination
  • Models, Theoretical