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Tag Archives: Pfizer Inc.
A Further Set-Back for Progress in Dementia Drug Development? (BBC News)
Summary Drug company Pfizer is to cease activity in its neuroscience drug discovery programmes, which will impact on ongoing research into drugs for Alzheimer’s Disease and Parkinson’s Disease. Paradoxically the company does promise plans to create a new fund dedicated … Continue reading →
Posted in BBC News, For Researchers (mostly), In the News, International, Management of Condition, Pharmacological Treatments, Quick Insights, Universal Interest
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Tagged Big Pharma, Dementia Research, Dementia Research Funding, Disease Modifying Treatment by 2025 (Aim), Disease-Modifying Therapies, Disease-Modifying Therapies for Dementia, Drug Discovery Programmes, Drug Identification, Drug Trials Failure Rate, Drug-Development Pipeline, Global Context, Global Outlook, International Organisations, International Programmes, Neurological Conditions, Neurological Disease, Neurological Disorders, Neuroscience Drug Discovery Programmes (Pfizer), Neuroscience Research, Pfizer, Pfizer Inc., Pharmaceutical Industry, Research and Development, Research and Innovation, Research Commitment, Research Funding
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Dementia Discovery Fund Launched (WDC / ARUK)
Summary The Dementia Discovery Fund (DDF) was launched on October 21st 2015. Full Text Link Reference Launch of Dementia Discovery Fund. London [Online]: World Dementia Council (WDC), November 10th 2015. See also: Full Text Link Reference $100m Dementia Discovery Fund … Continue reading →
Posted in Alzheimer’s Research UK, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Department of Health, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), In the News, International, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, Pharmacological Treatments, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged $100m Dementia Discovery Fund, Ageing and Dementia, Ageing and Society, Ageing Population, Alzheimer's Research UK, Alzheimer’s Research UK (ARUK), Andrew Plump: Chief Medical and Scientific Officer at Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited, ARUK: Alzheimer’s Research UK, Big Pharma, Biogen, Biopharmaceutical Companies, Collaboration, Collaborative Projects, Cross-Sector Partnerships, Dementia Discovery Fund, Dementia Discovery Fund (DDF), Dementia Research, Dementia Research Funding, Disease Modifying Treatment by 2025 (Aim), Disease-Modifying Therapies, Disease-Modifying Therapies for Dementia, Dr Jan Lundberg: President of Lilly Research Laboratories, Dr Matthew Norton: Alzheimer's Research UK, Drug Discovery Programmes, Drug Identification, Drug Regulation, Drug-Development Pipeline, Eli Lilly Inc., Eli Lilly’s UK Dementia Research Centre, First Global Ministerial Conference on Global Action Against Dementia, First WHO Ministerial Conference on Global Action Against Dementia, G8 Dementia Summit: Global Action Against Dementia, GlaxoSmithKline, Global Action Against Dementia, Global Action Against Dementia (GAAD), Global Ministerial Conference on Global Action Against Dementia (WHO), Global Outlook, Government Research Funding, GSK Johnson & Johnson, International Collaborations, International Programmes, Jane Ellison, Johnson & Johnson, Lilly, Mikael Dolsten: President of Worldwide Research and Development at Pfizer, Partnership, Partnership and Collaboration, Partnership Working, Patrick Vallance: President of Pharmaceuticals R&D at GSK, Paul Stoffels: Worldwide Chairman of Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Pfizer Inc., Pharmaceutical Industry, Research and Development, Research and Innovation, Research Commitment, Research Funding, SV Life Sciences, SV Life Sciences (SVLS), Takeda, WDC: World Dementia Council, World Dementia Council
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Announcements From WHO’s First Ministerial Conference on Global Action Against Dementia Conference (Dementia Challenge / Department of Health / World Dementia Council / WHO / GAAD)
Summary Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced a $100 million Dementia Discovery Fund at the World Health Organisation’s First Ministerial Conference on Global Action Against Dementia Conference. The Dementia Discovery Fund will be used to finance dementia research with the … Continue reading →
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Prevention of Dementia (ILC-UK)
Summary This International Longevity Centre – UK (ILC-UK) report summarises current knowledge about how more can be done to prevent the scale of dementia prevalence in future, and to reduce avoidable costs. It considers the potential savings achievable by tackling … Continue reading →
Posted in Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, Depression, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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G8 Dementia Summit to Coordinate Global Efforts on Dementia Research (Department of Health)
Summary The UK is planning to use its Presidency of the G8 to coordinate a more international approach to dementia research. UK annual funding on dementia research is increasing to £66 million by 2015, and President Obama has committed the US to spending around … Continue reading →
Posted in Department of Health, For Researchers (mostly), In the News, International, National, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Barack Obama, Baxter, Challenge on Dementia (David Cameron), Covance, David Cameron, Dementia Research, G8 Dementia Summit, Global Burden of Disease Study, Global Context, Global Outlook, International Organisations, International Programmes, Johnson & Johnson, OECD, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Pfizer, Pfizer Inc., Prime Minister’s Challenge on Dementia: Annual Report (2013), Prime Minister’s Dementia Challenge, Research and Development, Research and Innovation, Research Commitment, Research Mapping, Research Networks, Translational Research, UK Research Strengths in Dementia, World Alzheimer Report 2010
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Bapineuzumab: Alzheimer’s Drug Trials Halted (Healthcare Today UK)
Summary Two U.S. drug companies have halted trials of bapineuzumab, an experimental drug to treat Alzheimer’s Disease. The drug failed to produce any improvement in the symptoms of dementia sufferers. Pfizer Inc. and Johnson & Johnson had been testing bapineuzumab, which had been designed … Continue reading →
Posted in For Doctors (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), In the News, International, Pharmacological Treatments, Quick Insights, Universal Interest
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Tagged Alzheimer's Gene (APOE4 Gene), APOE4 Gene, Bapineuzumab, Eli Lilly, Experimental Alzheimer's Drugs, Healthcare Today UK, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer Inc., Solanezumab (Eli Lilly), Tau, Tau Protein
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