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ArticleFrontiers in pharmacology2014

The battle of Alzheimer's Disease - the beginning of the future Unleashing the potential of academic discoveries.

Johan Lundkvist, Magnus M Halldin, Johan Sandin, Gunnar Nordvall, Pontus Forsell, Samuel Svensson, Liselotte Jansson, Gunilla Johansson, Bengt Winblad, Jonas Ekstrand

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Article in Frontiers in pharmacology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Johan LundkvistAlzeCure Foundation, Karolinska Institutet Science Park Novum Huddinge, Sweden.
Magnus M HalldinAlzeCure Foundation, Karolinska Institutet Science Park Novum Huddinge, Sweden.
Johan SandinAlzeCure Foundation, Karolinska Institutet Science Park Novum Huddinge, Sweden.
Gunnar NordvallAlzeCure Foundation, Karolinska Institutet Science Park Novum Huddinge, Sweden.
Pontus ForsellAlzeCure Foundation, Karolinska Institutet Science Park Novum Huddinge, Sweden.
Samuel SvenssonAlzeCure Foundation, Karolinska Institutet Science Park Novum Huddinge, Sweden.
Liselotte JanssonAlzheimerfonden, Frösundavik Solna, Sweden.
Gunilla JohanssonCenter for Alzheimer Research at Karolinska Institutet and Swedish Brain Power Novum, Huddinge, Sweden.
Bengt WinbladCenter for Alzheimer Research at Karolinska Institutet and Swedish Brain Power Novum, Huddinge, Sweden.
Jonas EkstrandAlzeCure Foundation, Karolinska Institutet Science Park Novum Huddinge, Sweden.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia, affecting approximately 36 million people worldwide. To date there is no preventive or curative treatment available for AD, and in absence of major progress in therapeutic development, AD manifests a concrete socioeconomic threat. The awareness of the growing problem of AD is increasing, exemplified by the recent G8 Dementia Summit, a meeting held in order to set the stage and steer the compass for the future. Simultaneously, and paradoxically, we have seen key players in the pharmaceutical industry that have recently closed or significantly decreased their R&D spending on AD and other CNS disorders. Given the pressing need for new treatments in this area, other actors need to step-in and enter this drug discovery arena complementing the industrial efforts, in order to turn biological and technological progress into novel therapeutics. In this article, we present an example of a novel drug discovery initiative that in a non-profit setting, aims to integrate with both preclinical and clinical academic groups and pharmaceutical industry to explore the therapeutic potential of new concepts in patients, using novel biology, state of the art technologies and rapid concept testing.

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Alzheimer’s diseasecollaborative researchdrug discovery and developmentnon-profitpharmaceuticaltechnology

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PMID24847271
PMCPMC4023025

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