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CTAD 2022 | Precision medicine in Alzheimer’s treatment: genetics and co-pathologies

Precision medicine, or personalized medicine, takes into account a patient’s genetics, lifestyle, and individual needs in order to provide the best disease management strategy. Nicolas Villain, MD, PhD, AP-HP Sorbonne University, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France, discusses how precision medicine may become favorable in the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). This is because AD is a very complex disease that can affect individual patients differently. Recently, there have been discussions of three types of AD, based on genetic susceptibility, as well as research identifying the impact of co-pathologies that commonly occur with AD. Dr Villain therefore suggests that these should be used to provide precise diagnoses for patients and by extension, could help better design clinical trials and individualized treatment options. This interview took place at the Clinical Trials on Alzheimer’s Disease Congress 2022 in San Francisco.

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Independent of this work, NV received research support from Fondation Bettencourt-Schueller, Fondation Servier, Union Nationale pour les Intérêts de la Médecine (UNIM), Fondation Claude Pompidou, Fondation Alzheimer and Fondation pour la Recherche sur l’Alzheimer; travel grant from the Movement Disorders Society, Merz-Pharma, UCB Pharma, and GE Healthcare SAS; is an unpaid local principal investigator or sub-investigator in NCT04241068 and NCT05310071 (aducanumab, Biogen), NCT04437511 (donanemab, Eli-Lilly), NCT05463731 (remternetug, Eli-Lilly), NCT04592341 (gantenerumab, Roche), NCT03887455 (lecanemab, Eisai), NCT03352557 (gosuranemab, Biogen), NCT03828747 and NCT03289143 (semorinemab, Roche), NCT04619420 (JNJ-63733657, Janssen – Johnson & Johnson), NCT04374136 (AL001, Alector), NCT04592874 (AL002, Alector), NCT04867616 (bepranemab, UCB Pharma), NCT04777396 and NCT04777409 (semaglutide, Novo Nordisk), is an unpaid national coordinator for NCT05564169 (masitinib, ABScience); and has given unpaid lectures in symposia organized by Eisai and the Servier Foundation.