Challenges in Developing Disease-Modifying Treatments for Dementia (Department of Health)

Summary

Raj Long, the Senior Regulatory Officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, explores the problems in developing treatments for dementia. The independent “Finding a Path for the Cure for Dementia” report is a contribution to the G8 Dementia Summit’s agenda for discovering a cure or disease modifying therapy for dementia by 2025. The main section headings in this report comprise:

1. Introduction: the challenge of dementia and the importance of drug regulations.
2. Chapter 1: The G8’s challenge to find a cure or disease modifying therapy for dementia by 2025.
3. Chapter 2: Context – State of the interface between regulation and science.
4. Chapter 3: Methodology – how I have formed my position.
5. Chapter 4: Next steps and recommendations.
6. Conclusions.

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Reference

Long, R. (2015). Finding a path for the cure for dementia: an independent report into an integrated approach to dementia research. London: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Department of Health [and] World Dementia Council, July 21^st 2015.