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Biogen Alzheimer’s drug and the battle over dementia treatment of the future

Aduhelm by Biogen Source: Biogen The FDA’s approval of Biogen‘s Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm was a landmark moment in the life of Dr. Paul Aisen. The director of the Alzheimer’s Therapeutic Research Institute at USC has spent the past three decades focused on treating the neurodegenerative disease, and in recent years helped shepherd this particular drug… Read More »

BioCryst’s persistence for patient insights leads to a bigger market for HAE drug Orladeyo

Sometimes finding out how patients really feel about treatment takes persistence. That’s what BioCryst Pharmaceuticals learned when it started talking to patients about its new oral preventative treatment for hereditary angioedema. Two years ago, after pivotal trial results came in for the drug that would become Orladeyo, BioCryst had just begun its market research with a study… Read More »