Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms for pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that with Myriad Genetics/Lundbeck's decision to discontinue the development of Flurizan, the most likely first-to-market disease-modifying Alzheimer's disease treatment becomes Elan/Wyeth's bapineuzumab, an anti-beta-amyloid monoclonal antibody, expected to launch in 2011. The recent Phase III failure of Flurizan underscores the risk involved with developing an agent for Alzheimer's disease.
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