The U.S. Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) opened a 30-day comment window on its proposed national coverage determination (NCD) to limit Medicare access to monoclonal antibodies targeting amyloid beta in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) only in clinical trials. Biogen Inc., clearly the target, along with its AD treatment Aduhelm (aducanumab), was among the first to respond.
Privately held Alzheon Inc. picked up a $47 million grant from the NIH’s National Institute on Aging that will last over five years to support a phase III clinical trial of its oral brain-penetrant small molecule ALZ-801 to treat Alzheimer’s disease.
Privately held Alzheon Inc. picked up a $47 million grant from the NIH’s National Institute on Aging that will last over five years to support a phase III clinical trial of its oral brain-penetrant small molecule ALZ-801 to treat Alzheimer’s disease.