
The charity Alzheimer's Research UK has
set up a £30m trio of new drug discovery institutes at Oxford and Cambridge
universities and University College London. According to the proponents, the centers
will work with academic and industrial partners in Europe and elsewhere.
"This is the single largest Alzheimer's drug discovery effort in the world. I am confident that we
will be successful," said Simon Lovestone, scientific leader of the Oxford
institute, at the annual conference of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science.
Professor Lovestone also said that using new methods to understand the complex molecular processes that destroy the brain would be far more productive than the failed Alzheimer's drug trials undertaken by the pharmaceutical industry over the past decade.
Lovestone added that the initiative would use personalised or 'precision' medicine to find drugs tailored to individual patients in early stages of the disease, in contrast to the industry's recent trials.
Source: Medindia
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