Clinical trials to test vaccine against Alzheimer’s-promoting tau protein

University of New Mexico Health Sciences researchers hope to launch human clinical trials in their quest for a vaccine to prevent the buildup of pathological tau — a protein in the brain associated with Alzheimer’s dementia.

In a new paper published in Alzheimer’s and Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association, a team led by Kiran Bhaskar, PhD, professor in the Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology in the UNM School of Medicine, found that the experimental vaccine…

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