Coming to a Center Near You: GAP and EPAD to Revamp Alzheimer’s Trials

Newswise — After a decade of crushing setbacks in clinical trials, Alzheimer’s disease researchers all around the world are building integrated systems to run cheaper, faster, and hopefully more successful studies. Large registries, partnerships with health-care providers, and other outreach efforts are supposed to reach hundreds of thousands of people, and entice them to join cohorts where those at high risk get phenotyped and invited to join therapeutic trials. Europe, North America, Australia, and Japan are all on this path. Will it work? Gabrielle Strobel’s three-part series examines the outlook for joint efforts by the Global Alzheimer’s Platform and the European Prevention of Alzheimer’s Dementia. She covers new ways in which GAP and EPAD are reaching out to people and how trial centers are positioning themselves as standing networks, with standardized paperwork, clinical rater systems, and a central IRB, for trials anticipated to start late next year.

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