New Two-Drug attack on inherited Alzheimer's aims to slow brain decline

NCT ID NCT05269394

Summary

This trial is testing whether adding an experimental anti-tau drug (E2814) to an approved anti-amyloid drug (lecanemab) can better slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease in people who have a specific genetic mutation that causes it. It involves about 200 participants, some with early symptoms and some without, who will receive the drug combination or a placebo plus lecanemab for up to four years. The main goal is to see if the combination reduces harmful tau protein spread in the brain and slows cognitive decline more than the anti-amyloid drug alone.

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Contacts and locations

Locations

  • Advocate Lutheran General Hospital

    Park Ridge, Illinois, 60068, United States

  • Alzheimer's Research Australia

    Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, Australia

  • Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Careggi

    Florence, 50134, Italy

  • Brain Research Center

    Amsterdam, 1081 GM, Netherlands

  • Butler Hospital

    Providence, Rhode Island, 02096, United States

  • CHU de Quebec - Hôpital de l' Enfant Jésus

    Québec, G1J 1Z4, Canada

  • CHU de Rouen - Hôpital Charles Nicolle

    Rouen, Seine Maritime, 76031, France

  • CHU de Toulouse - Hôpital Purpan

    Toulouse, Haute Garonne, 31059, France

  • Emory University

    Atlanta, Georgia, 30329, United States

  • Groupe Hospitalier Pitie-Salpetriere

    Paris, Paris, 69677, France

  • Grupo de Neurociencias Sede de la Universidad de Antioquia

    Medellín, Colombia

  • Hopital Neurologique Pierre Wertheimer

    Bron, Rhone, 69677, France

  • Hopital Roger Salengro - CHU Lille

    Lille, Nord, 59037, France

  • Hospital Clínic I Provincial de Barcelona

    Barcelona, 8036, Spain

  • Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da USP

    São Paulo, 05403-000, Brazil

  • IRCCS Centro San Giovanni di Dio Fatebenefratelli

    Brescia, 25125, Italy

  • Indiana University School of Medicine

    Indianapolis, Indiana, 46202, United States

  • Instituto Nacional de Neurologia y Neurocirugia Manuel Velasco Suarez

    Mexico City, Mexico City, 14269, Mexico

  • Instituto de Investigaciones Neurologicas Raul Carrea, FLENI

    Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aire, C1428AQK, Argentina

  • Kerwin Research Center,

    Dallas, Texas, 75231, United States

  • LMU-Campus Grosshadern

    Munich, Bavaria, 81377, Germany

  • McGill Center for Studies in Aging

    Verdun, Quebec, H4H 1R3, Canada

  • Neuroscience Research Australia

    Randwick, New South Wales, 2031, Australia

  • St Vincent's University Hospital

    Dublin, DUBLIN 4, Ireland

  • Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

    Toronto, Ontario, M4N 3M5, Canada

  • The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery

    London, Greater London, WC1B 3BG, United Kingdom

  • USC Keck School of Medicine

    Los Angeles, California, 90033, United States

  • Universitaetsklinikum Tubingen

    Tübingen, Baden-Wurttemberg, 72076, Germany

  • University of Alabama in Birmingham

    Birmingham, Alabama, 35294, United States

  • University of California San Diego Medical Center

    La Jolla, California, 92037, United States

  • University of Pittsburgh

    Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15213, United States

  • University of Puerto Rico, School of Medicine

    San Juan, 00936, Puerto Rico

  • University of Tokyo Hospital

    Bunkyō City, Tokyo-To, 113-8655, Japan

  • University of Washington

    Seattle, Washington, 98195, United States

  • Washington University in St. Louis

    St Louis, Missouri, 63110, United States

  • Yale University School of Medicine

    New Haven, Connecticut, 06510, United States

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