WMIF MAIN SITE
2025 Event SiteTuesday, September 16, 2025
02:35 PM - 03:15 PM
Emerging Treatments
Neurodegenerative diseases are a group of conditions that gradually destroy parts of the human nervous system with diverse and highly debilitating impacts. In addition to Alzheimer’s Disease, neurodegenerative diseases include amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Parkinson’s Disease (PD) and multiple sclerosis (MS), among others. In the aggregate neurodegenerative diseases affect some 50 million people globally. This panel will discuss the current slate of therapeutics in the market for these treating these diseases, agents that are currently undergoing clinical trials, efficient and effective platform approaches to clinical studies in this space and prospects such as Calico/Abbvie’s ALS agent fosigotifator, Sanofi’s tolebrutinib for MS, and AbbVie’s tavapadon, among others.
Moderators
Jason Gerberry
Biopharma Equity Research Analyst, Bank of America
Jason Zemansky,
SMid-Cap Biotech Analyst, BofA Securities
Speakers
James Berry, MD
Neurologist/ALS Clinical Researcher, MGH;
Associate Professor, HMS
Merit Cudkowicz, MD
Chair, Department of Neurology, MGH;
Julieanne Dorn Professor of Neurology, HMS
Howard Weiner, MD
Director, Multiple Sclerosis Program, BWH;
Robert L. Kroc Professor of Neurology, HMS