Prevention Better Than Cure? AC Immune's Parkinson’s Vaccine Approach

With a broad pipeline focused on neurodegenerative disease, AC Immune is about to begin a Phase II program investigating an alpha-synuclein-targeted peptide vaccine with a diagnostic to stratify patients.    

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Lausanne, Switzerland-based AC Immune SA thinks the best potential for treating Parkinson’s disease and other neurodegenerative diseases lies in prevention, using a combination of therapeutic vaccines and diagnostics that can distinguish one proteinopathy from another.

In a recent interview with In Vivo, CEO Andrea Pfeifer explained why recent advancement with alpha-synuclein PET tracer ACI-12589 offers the potential to unlock new approaches to Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s disease,...

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