Drug Discovery | Alzheimer's Society
What Is Drug Discovery? the Drug Discovery Programme Is Alzheimer's Society's Innovative Approach to Dementia Treatment Development. the Result of Which Means...
What is Drug Discovery?
The Drug Discovery programme is Alzheimer's Society's innovative approach to dementia treatment development. The result of which means new, better treatments could be available in half the time of a standard drug.
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Why is Drug Discovery important?
It takes about 20 years and millions of pounds to develop a new drug from scratch.
Drug Discovery focuses on 'drug repurposing', which takes drugs that are already being used to treat other conditions and tests their potential as a treatment for dementia.
Working with national dementia experts, we carried out a review of existing research that was published in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery in October 2012. It identified five existing classes of drugs already in use for other conditions that show most potential for the treatment of dementia.
The four most promising of these drug types are currently being tested, or soon to begin testing, in people with dementia in Phase IIb or Phase III clinical trials.
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