Abbreviation (ISO4): Chinese Journal of Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders
Editor in chief: Jun WANG
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Controversy surrounding aducanumab for Alzheimer’s disease
Received date: 2019-12-16
Revised date: 2019-12-17
Online published: 2020-03-25
Aducanumab is a human-derived therapeutic monoclonal antibody selectively targeting aggregated β-amyloid (Aβ). Previous Phase l clinical trial by Biogen showedthat aducanumab reduced Aβ deposition in the brain as well as slowed cognitive decline. This prompted twoidentically-designed Phase 3 clinical studies, EMERGE and ENGAGE, in early Alzheimer’s disease (AD) patients. After failing a futility analysis in March 2019, further analysis including three more months of data showed that aducanumab appears to have met its primary and secondary endpoints in EMERGE but not ENGAGE. However, a subgroup analysis of ENGAGE, which started a month earlier than EMERGE, revealed a trend towards efficacy. Biogen believes the re-analysis is valid because it took into account the effect of protocol amendments andplans to file new drug application in early 2020. Such a sharp turnaround incited a huge debate on the scientific rigor of the data collected and the analysis adopted by Biogen. Even though it is uncertain whether FDA will approve aducanumab in 2020,the data associated with it provides support to the increasingly-questioned amyloid hypothesis and even more importantly, some hope for the millions of AD patients.
LI Wenkai . Controversy surrounding aducanumab for Alzheimer’s disease[J]. Chinese Journal of Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders, 2020 , 3(1) : 61 -64 . DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.2096-5516.2020.01.015
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