Ep. 335 - Neurology's Coming Inflection Point

Voyager CEO and former head of R&D at Biogen Al Sandrock is more optimistic than ever about the prospect of bringing clinically meaningful solutions to patients with Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative disorders. The threads of progress are finally coming together, he said in a special episode of the BioCentury This Week podcast. From the first disease-modifying therapies for Alzheimer’s disease, to a growing biomarker toolkit, to an expanding set of genetically validated targets in other neurodegenerative conditions — and, crucially, to delivery vehicles capable of broadly and deeply penetrating the brain — neurology drug development may be poised to accelerate. This episode of the BioCentury This Week podcast is brought to you by Voyager Therapeutics.View full story: https://www.biocentury.com/article/657678#AlzheimersDisease #AAVGeneTherapy #BloodBrainBarrier #TauTargeting #Neurodegeneration00:01 - Sponsor Message: Voyager Therapeutics 03:41 - Voyager's Approach to Gene Therapy15:07 - Alzheimer's Disease25:25 - Big Biotech to Small Biotech29:21 - Neurodegenerative Diseases31:19 - FDA FlexibilityTo submit a question to BioCentury’s editors, email the BioCentury This Week team at [email protected] us by sending a text

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