A Promising Drug for Alzheimer's Disease with William Klein, PhD, and Richard Silverman, PhD

An experimental drug called NU-9 was invented at Northwestern University by Richard Silverman, PhD . It has been approved for clinical trials for the treatment of ALS and found to improves neuron health in animal models of Alzheimer's disease according to a new Northwestern Medicine study published in PNAS . This discovery is giving scientists hope that the drug could be effective in multiple neurodegenerative diseases by addressing the underlying mechanisms of these diseases. Silverman and Northwestern University Alzheimer disease expert, William Klein, PhD , discuss the potential of NU-9 in this episode.

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A Promising Drug for Alzheimer's Disease with William Klein, PhD, and Richard Silverman, PhD is an episode from Breakthroughs by Feinberg School of Medicine.

This episode is 19:12 long.

This episode was published on Jul 7, 2025.

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