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Novartis confidence and SciNeuro’s excellence to heal the Alzheimer’s patient group

Novartis signs a $1.5 billion licensing deal with SciNeuro Pharmaceuticals to develop a next-generation anti-amyloid antibody for Alzheimer’s disease.

Category: Business Published Date: 15 January 2026
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Introduction

The Switzerland-based, science-centric, and leading pharmaceutical company Novartis, along with its innovative treatments, has helped address crucial areas of disease. The company found its grip in the vast healthcare market with the merger of Sandoz and Ciba-Geigy. With its powerful R&D investment and groundbreaking drugs, Novartis met the health needs of millions of patients.

Whereas, SciNeuro Pharmaceuticals, known for its disease-based treatments for popular conditions like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s, has served many disturbed patient groups by elevating the exceptional blood-brain barrier (BBB) shuttle platform. Alongside, the company also observes different unfavorable activities in the brain by conducting major programs in clinical and preclinical levels. SciNeuro is popular for its brilliant team, smart partnership act, including one talk of the town deal with the Michael J. Fox Foundation.

Announcement

Novartis announced a licence-based deal worth $1.5 billion with SciNeuro Pharmaceuticals. This license-based deal is for the next-generation effective anti-amyloid antibody program focusing on Alzheimer’s disease. After this deal, Novartis will have the authority on SciNeuro’s robust disease-modifying anti-amyloid antibody. This antibody accelerates the latter’s exclusive shuttle platform to enable entry into the brain.

The scene after the deal

Novartis will be eligible to have a collaboration deal with SciNeuro regarding the development of the programs before the time, after confirming a $165 million upfront payment to SciNeuro. This locking of the deal conversation was held on Monday. Further, Novartis can then get the right of product establishment, commercialisation rights and later clinical. SciNeuro will be capable of getting worth $1.5 billion to achieve regulatory, commercial and development profit and tiered royalties as well. This transaction phase will come to an end by this year soon.

For now, both companies haven’t yet mentioned which anti-amyloid candidate they will be working on. As per the observation, on SciNeuro’s official website, there’s only one candidate found that focuses on this specific disease marker. That one candidate is SNP234, who uses the company’s exclusive shuttle platform.

So, this candidate is kind of predictable to be a part of the program and deal. Lastly, the amyloid-beta is the only kind of Alzheimer’s target that has the potential to boost the therapy at the market level. Apart from Novartis and SciNeuro’s deal, most of the other giants are also in the competition to either introduce a fruitful deal or development ideas in the Alzheimer’s space.

Author

Mansi Kadam

Mansi Kadam

Mansi Kadam is a market research writer with over 3 years of experience analyzing trends in the healthcare industry. At Towards Healthcare, she covers innovations in medical sector, sustainability initiatives, and the evolving regulatory landscape.