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Antibody is first of three tau drugs to be evaluated Clinical trial participant Taylor Hutton (left) meets with Randall J. Bateman, MD, director of the global DIAN-TU Alzheimer’s clinical trial in 2018. Hutton’s family has a history of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. The DIAN-TU is launching three new arms to evaluate experimental Alzheimer’s drugs targeting the protein tau. (Photo: Matt Miller/School of Medicine) March 15, 2021 SHARE A worldwide clinical trial aimed at finding treatments for Alzheimer’s disease has expanded to include investigational drugs targeting a harmful form of the brain protein tau. The trial, known as the Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network Trials Unit (DIAN-TU) and led by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, launched in 2012 as the first prevention trial for Alzheimer’s disease. Originally focused on amyloid-based therapies, it was funded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) of the National Institutes of Heal

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