Press Releases
Dementia Mission Competition Selects Four Companies For Innovative Alzheimer’s Biomarker Study
Collaboration with Innovate UK Yields New Partners for Alzheimer’s Study Washington D.C., July 10, 2024- With groundbreaking creativity and breathtaking speed, this phase 3 competition, funded by Innovate UK, the UK’s innovation agency, is supporting organizations committed to improving dementia research using blood-based and digital biomarkers. This competition received 14 proposals within one week, from […]
Global Alzheimer’s Platform Foundation Names Chief Impact Officer and Director of Recruitment & Strategic Initiatives Among Promotions
Washington D.C., July 8, 2024- Global Alzheimer’s Platform Foundation® (GAP) announced the appointment of Leigh Zisko, MPH as Chief Impact Officer and Tamiko MaGee-Rodgers, PhD, CCRP as the Director of Recruitment and Strategic Initiatives. In newly created global leadership roles, each will meaningfully contribute new perspectives and experience to GAP’s work in innovating clinical trial […]
Global Alzheimer’s Platform Foundation: Full FDA Approval of Donanemab Signifies Brighter Future
Washington D.C., July 2, 2024- Global Alzheimer’s Platform Foundation® (GAP) President John Dwyer applauds the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its decision granting full traditional approval of Eli Lilly and Company’s Kisunla™ (donanemab), a disease-modifying Alzheimer’s treatment for adults with early symptomatic Alzheimer’s disease (AD). “Today, the FDA grants full approval for donanemab, […]
Global Alzheimer’s Platform Foundation Applauds FDA Draft Guidance to Improve Diverse Participation in Clinical Trials
Washington D.C., July 1, 2024- The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) unveiled a draft guidance document, “Diversity Action Plans to Improve Enrollment of Participants from Underrepresented Populations in Clinical Studies,” which is open for public comment. This draft guidance points to improving participation from people who are traditionally underrepresented in clinical trials. John Dwyer, President […]
Global Alzheimer’s Platform Foundation Welcomes Tandem Clinical Research Site to its Network
Global non-profit expands research network to the greater New Orleans areato improve access to research opportunities Washington D.C., June. 17, 2024- Global Alzheimer’s Platform Foundation® (GAP) is welcoming its first clinical research site from Louisiana into its network, Tandem Clinical Research of greater New Orleans. Tandem Clinical Research, a Prolerity Clinical Research Company site, advances […]
Global Alzheimer’s Platform Foundation Collaborates on First-Ever Performance Recommendations for Blood-Based Biomarker Tests
Washington D.C., June. 14, 2024- Global Alzheimer’s Platform Foundation® (GAP) proudly collaborated with The Global CEO Initiative on Alzheimer’s Disease (CEOi) to release the peer-reviewed publication of “Acceptable performance of blood biomarker tests of amyloid pathology — recommendations from the Global CEO Initiative on Alzheimer’s Disease,” in Nature Reviews Neurology. Alzheimer’s blood tests have the […]
Global Alzheimer’s Platform Foundation Applauds the FDA’s Acceptance of the Subcutaneous Version of Leqembi
Washington D.C., June.10, 2024- Global Alzheimer’s Platform Foundation® (GAP) –applauds the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s acceptance of Eisai’s application for the subcutaneous maintenance dosing of Leqembi. With an action date set for January 25, 2025, this autoinjector will be used for weekly maintenance dosing and stands to reduce the burden on patients who are eligible to receive this disease-modifying therapy, as it can be used […]
First-of-its-Kind Bio-Hermes Challenge Sparks Global Interest for Novel Research
Support from Scottish Parliament Underscores Its Significance Washington D.C., May 30, 2024- The Global Alzheimer’s Platform Foundation® (GAP) and the Scottish Funding Council’s Brain Health ARC have announced swift progress in the next steps of the Bio-Hermes Biomarker Data Challenge 2024, the research competition using the most comprehensive set of dementia biomarker data from ground-breaking […]
Scotland to host research challenge using the most comprehensive set of dementia biomarker in the world
Washington D.C., Mar. 25, 2024- The Global Alzheimer’s Platform Foundation® (GAP) – which is focused on global game-changing dementia research – has chosen Scotland to host the Bio-Hermes Biomarker Data Challenge 2024, a research competition using the most comprehensive set of dementia biomarker data from ground-breaking early blood testing studies for Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers at […]
Global Alzheimer’s Platform Foundation Applauds Labcorp’s Expansion of Alzheimer’s Blood Tests
Washington D.C., Mar. 20, 2024- Labcorp announced its launch of new blood tests to detect the brain protein called tau. This announcement comes on the heels of the published results of the Bio-Hermes-001 study which reveals a strong correlation between p-tau 217 with the presence of amyloid plaques in the brain, a diagnostic hallmark of […]