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Pharmaceuticals predicts Alzheimer-affected families will triple by 2050

AC Immune, a company that develops drugs to combat the disease of Alzheimer, believes that the number of families affected by the degenerative disease could almost triple by 2050, reaching 150 million, said its CEO in an interview with a German magazine.

The company recently secured a multimillion-dollar investment from the main financiers of the Covid-19 vaccine developer in Germany, the BioNTech, and also acquired a possible vaccine against Parkinson’s disease.

AC Immune CEO Andrea Pfeifer, in an interview with the German business magazine Wirtschaftswoche, described Alzheimer’s, an incurable disease whose origin is unknown, as “a slow pandemic that spreads around the world.” It currently affects 55 million families, she said.

Athos, a holding company owned by Andreas and Thomas Struengmann –anchor BioNTech investors– together with financial firms MIG and First Capital Partner, jointly own 12% of AC Immune after a deal concluded a few weeks ago, he said. Pfeifer. The investment was announced in July.

Athos and MIG were involved in founding BioNTech, which with partner Pfizer developed the most widely used Covid-19 vaccine in the western world, and both companies remain the main shareholders.

AC Immune is working on several compounds for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, including vaccines.

The company has not yet released a drug.

Reference: CNN Brasil

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