Abstract
Parrocha and Nowick review ongoing efforts to develop peptide immunotherapies and vaccines against Alzheimer's disease. Peptide immunotherapies in which antibodies against the beta amyloid peptide are administered have begun to be approved as treatments for Alzheimer's disease. Although the efficacy of these first‐generation drugs has been modest, it is hoped that subsequent immunotherapies, including those with antibodies against the tau protein, will be more efficacious. Vaccines that train the immune system to safely produce antibodies against beta amyloid and tau have proven more challenging to develop but hold the promise of preventing Alzheimer's disease in the broader population. (doi: 10.1002/pep2.24289) image
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