2022
Trial of Cinpanemab in Early Parkinson’s Disease
Lang A, Siderowf A, Macklin E, Poewe W, Brooks D, Fernandez H, Rascol O, Giladi N, Stocchi F, Tanner C, Postuma R, Simon D, Tolosa E, Mollenhauer B, Cedarbaum J, Fraser K, Xiao J, Evans K, Graham D, Sapir I, Inra J, Hutchison R, Yang M, Fox T, Budd Haeberlein S, Dam T. Trial of Cinpanemab in Early Parkinson’s Disease. New England Journal Of Medicine 2022, 387: 408-420. PMID: 35921450, DOI: 10.1056/nejmoa2203395.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsEarly Parkinson's diseasePrimary end pointSecondary end pointsWeek 52Parkinson's diseaseEnd pointControl groupUnified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS) total scoreDisease pathogenesisHuman-derived monoclonal antibodiesΑ-synucleinCommon adverse eventsPhase 2 trialDisease-modifying treatmentsMDS-UPDRS scoresLack of efficacyDAT SPECT imagingAdjusted mean differenceMovement Disorder SocietyParkinson's disease pathogenesisScale total scoreAdverse eventsIntravenous infusionDAT-SPECTDisease progression
2021
Systematic Assessment of 10 Biomarker Candidates Focusing on α‐Synuclein‐Related Disorders
Schulz I, Kruse N, Gera R, Kremer T, Cedarbaum J, Barbour R, Zago W, Schade S, Otte B, Bartl M, Hutten S, Trenkwalder C, Mollenhauer B. Systematic Assessment of 10 Biomarker Candidates Focusing on α‐Synuclein‐Related Disorders. Movement Disorders 2021, 36: 2874-2887. PMID: 34363416, DOI: 10.1002/mds.28738.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsGlial fibrillary acidic proteinCerebrospinal fluidChitinase-3-like protein 1Calcium-binding protein BUbiquitin C-terminal hydrolase L1Myeloid cells 2Neurofilament light chainObjective diagnostic biomarkersFibrillary acidic proteinNeurofilament heavy chainDiagnostic biomarker candidatesDiagnostic biomarkersClinical diagnosisTau proteinPhosphorylated aSynNeurodegenerative disordersAcidic proteinCells 2Α-synucleinBiomarker candidatesProtein 1Candidate markersAvailable kitsDisordersLight chain
2020
Disease modification and biomarker development in Parkinson disease: Revision or reconstruction?
Espay A, Kalia L, Gan-Or Z, Williams-Gray C, Bedard P, Rowe S, Morgante F, Fasano A, Stecher B, Kauffman M, Farrer M, Coffey C, Schwarzschild M, Sherer T, Postuma R, Strafella A, Singleton A, Barker R, Kieburtz K, Olanow C, Lozano A, Kordower J, Cedarbaum J, Brundin P, Standaert D, Lang A. Disease modification and biomarker development in Parkinson disease: Revision or reconstruction? Neurology 2020, 94: 481-494. PMID: 32102975, PMCID: PMC7220234, DOI: 10.1212/wnl.0000000000009107.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsClinicopathologic modelDisease modificationDisease-modifying interventionsParkinson's disease researchCommon pathobiologyLewy neuritesLewy bodiesIdiopathic formClinical trialsPostmortem studiesBreast cancerParkinson's diseaseCystic fibrosisSingle disorderΑ-synucleinBiomarker developmentSmall subgroupGenetic PDDiseaseTrial effortsBiomarkersUnique entityCohortTrue failuresDisease research
2019
Randomized phase I clinical trial of anti–α‐synuclein antibody BIIB054
Brys M, Fanning L, Hung S, Ellenbogen A, Penner N, Yang M, Welch M, Koenig E, David E, Fox T, Makh S, Aldred J, Goodman I, Pepinsky B, Liu Y, Graham D, Weihofen A, Cedarbaum JM. Randomized phase I clinical trial of anti–α‐synuclein antibody BIIB054. Movement Disorders 2019, 34: 1154-1163. PMID: 31211448, PMCID: PMC6771554, DOI: 10.1002/mds.27738.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsParkinson's disease participantsΑ-synucleinHealthy volunteersParkinson's diseaseHuman-derived monoclonal antibodiesSingle-dose cohortsMost adverse eventsFurther clinical developmentImmunotherapy targetingStudy drugAdverse eventsFavorable safetySingle doseNeuronal dysfunctionSerum ratioDisease progressionCerebrospinal fluidClinical developmentPharmacokinetic parametersPharmacokinetic profileSerum exposureLaboratory assessmentMonoclonal antibodiesDiseaseDose range