US Department of Justice Opens Investigation into Cassava Alzheimer’s Drug Data Manipulation Controversy

Late last year, reports surfaced that Cassava Sciences had falsified trial data regarding its experimental drug for Alzheimer’s disease. Now, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) has launched a probe into the allegations, sending the company’s share prices down by 30%. The claims originated from two doctors, represented by the law firm Labaton Sucharow, who found irregularities in data coming from Hoau-yan Wang, an Associate Medical Professor at City University of New York, and Lindsay Burns, Cassava’s VP of neurosciences.

According to , “Labaton Sucharow then pointed to three types of data it thought might be falsified: clinical biomarker data apparently analyzed by Wang’s lab; Western blot analysis that allegedly bore marks of alteration; and research involving human brain tissue using a methodology that Labaton Sucharow said ‘defies logic.’”

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(Source: Endpoints News, July 27th, 2022)