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ReviewNature medicine2026

Target product profiles for treatments to delay or prevent symptomatic Alzheimer's disease.

Jeffrey L Cummings, Michael G Agadjanyan, Maureen Barry, Lawrence Corey, Rachelle Doody, Suzanne Hendrix, Soeren Mattke, Niklas Mattsson-Carlgren, Eric McDade, Joseph P Menetski and 8 more

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Review in Nature medicine, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Menopausal insomnia as a modifiable node of dementia risk: Mechanistic insights and intervention strategies.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

18 authors.

Jeffrey L CummingsChambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience, Department of Brain Health, Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine, University of Nevada at Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, USA. jeffrey.cummings@unlv.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8944-4158
Michael G AgadjanyanThe Institute for Molecular Medicine, Huntington Beach, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9602-0406
Maureen BarryJohnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
Lawrence CoreyFred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2179-2436
Rachelle DoodyAxxium Life, Houston, TX, USA.
Suzanne HendrixPentara Corporation, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
Soeren MattkeThe USC Brain Health Observatory, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4666-9132
Niklas Mattsson-CarlgrenClinical Memory Research Unit, Clinical Sciences Malmö, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8885-7724
Eric McDadeDepartment of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6764-3866
Joseph P MenetskiFoundation for the National Institutes of Health, North Bethesda, MD, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5657-1994
Richard C MohsGlobal Alzheimer's Platform Foundation, Washington, DC, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3765-6287
Katherine A PartrickThe Global CEO Initiative on Alzheimer's Disease, Wayne, PA, USA.
Nikolai PetrovskyVaxine, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1580-5245
Dennis J SelkoeAnn Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8846-9767
Diego SilvaVaxine, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
Reisa A SperlingCenter for Alzheimer Research and Treatment, Mass General Brigham, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1535-6133
Benjamin TiedeThe Global CEO Initiative on Alzheimer's Disease, Wayne, PA, USA.
George VradenburgThe Global CEO Initiative on Alzheimer's Disease, Wayne, PA, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite advances in understanding the mechanisms, risk factors and treatment strategies for Alzheimer's disease (AD), no approved therapies exist to prevent or delay onset in at-risk individuals or those with elevated biomarkers who do not yet show symptoms. Multiple candidate interventions are now being evaluated in clinical trials in these settings, raising key questions around which populations are most appropriate and what criteria should guide regulatory and clinical decision-making. Data are expected within 1-2 years, underscoring the need for stakeholder alignment on clinically meaningful and acceptable characteristics of preventative therapies or other products. To address this need, the Global CEO Initiative on Alzheimer's Disease convened an international group of experts to develop target product profiles for therapies designed to delay or prevent the onset of clinical symptoms in AD. These target product profiles outline minimum and preferred characteristics, including intended use, target populations, safety expectations and efficacy benchmarks. This effort provides a foundational framework to accelerate therapeutic development and guide researchers, regulators and patients in the evaluation of emerging therapies for preventing symptomatic AD.

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Alzheimer DiseaseBiomarkersClinical Trials as TopicHumansBiomarkers

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