STAT Plus: 4 questions key to making sense of new data on Biogen’s resurrected Alzheimer’s drug
The annual Alzheimer’s research meeting known as CTAD was supposed to be a snoozefest this year. That all changed six weeks ago, when Biogen stunned the medical world by bringing an Alzheimer’s drug back from the dead — and vowed to make a detailed scientific case for the decision at the gathering this week.
On Thursday morning, Biogen will give that highly anticipated presentation — livestreamed here — detailing data from two late-stage clinical trials of its drug, known as aducanumab. It will be the highlight of CTAD, short for Clinical Trials on Alzheimer’s Disease.