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The last few months have seen a flurry of trial results for investigational agents in Alzheimer's disease (AD). This analysis investigates the different categories of developmental drugs in AD, and provides an outlook to the future of the AD market.
Roche is one of the few pharmaceutical companies that has stayed firmly committed to research and development for central nervous system disorders. Here, Luca Santarelli, Senior Vice President and Head of Neuroscience Research and Early development, discusses why.
Last year saw the largest loss of revenue yet from major drugs due to patent expiries, but a continuation of 2011's higher level of drug approvals and new initiatives to address R&D challenges provide hope for the future.
Effectively selecting therapeutic targets from the sizeable lists that are emerging from large-scale multi-omics initiatives is a key challenge in drug discovery. This article describes an objective, systematic computational assessment of biological and chemical space that can be applied to any human gene set to prioritize targets for further evaluation, and demonstrates its use on a set of 479 cancer-associated genes to identify new opportunities for drug discovery and repurposing.
Regulatory T (TReg) cells are essential mediators of immune homeostasis. They are attractive targets for steering the immune system in desired directions — arming it to destroy cancer cells or downregulating it in autoimmunity. In this Review, Daniel and von Boehmer discuss how molecular insights into the generation and proliferation of these cells can be exploited for new therapeutic approaches.