The Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult (CGT Catapult) and the UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI) have announced a collaboration to accelerate clinical development of adeno-associated virus (AAV) based gene therapies for dementia.
Previously a series of unsuccessful clinical trials for treatments, combined with the high costs of R&D in the area, led to declining interest in dementia research but a new publication from the WHO notes a definite uptick in the funding of such work...