UCB will ad­vance its an­ti-tau an­ti­body for Alzheimer’s dis­ease so­lo af­ter Roche and Genen­tech walked away from the as­set known as bepranemab.
Roche has returned the rights to UCB’s anti-tau antibody bepranemab, walking away from a $120 million bet on the Alzheimer’s disease drug candidate on the cusp of the release of phase 2a data.