By Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters) - Swiss drugmaker Roche has "renewed confidence" that drugs targeting potentially brain-destroying plaque can fight Alzheimer's disease, following promising results with a product from a rival. Pharmaceuticals head Daniel O’Day said on Wednesday Roche would look again at prospects for two of its experimental Alzheimer's drugs, both of which suffered setbacks in 2014, in the wake of recent data on Biogen's drug. Aducanumab is similar to Roche's experimental product gantenerumab in the way it blocks beta amyloid, a protein that forms toxic brain plaques that are theoretically an underlying cause of the memory-robbing disease. The Basel-based company has insisted all along it is not giving up on Alzheimer's and O'Day told reporters, after presenting quarterly sales figures, that Roche was evaluating in detail earlier research on gantenerumab and crenezumab in light of the Biogen data.
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