GE, Eisai to partner on PET Alzheimer's agent

GE Healthcare has announced a research collaboration with Japanese pharmaceutical firm Eisai.

Eisai will use GE's F-18 flutemetamol investigational PET agent to help select patients for a phase I clinical trial, according to GE. The trial will evaluate Eisai's investigational compound E2609, a beta-site amyloid precursor protein-cleaving enzyme (BACE) inhibitor for the potential treatment of Alzheimer's disease, GE said.

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