Alzheimer's and Dementia Weekly
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - Prana Biotechnology Limited, a biopharmaceutical company focused on the research and development of treatments for neurodegenerative disorders, today announced that PBT2 has demonstrated safety and tolerability and reduced Abeta 42, in a Phase IIa study of PBT2 in patients with early Alzheimer's Disease. PBT2 also improved Executive Function performance in select cognitive tests.
"This is a very exciting and important milestone for the company, particularly because PBT2, a drug known to inhibit the toxic oligomers of Abeta that cause the functional damage in Alzheimer's Disease, was able to show such a clear effect in a short trial," commented Geoffrey Kempler, Prana's Chairman and CEO.
In this double blind multi-centre clinical trial, 78 patients in Sweden and Australia were randomized to receive either a placebo, PBT2 50mg or PBT2 250mg capsule once per day for 12 weeks.
Analysis of the trial data demonstrated that the....read the whole story
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