March 22 (Reuters) – Roche (ROG.S) and Eli Lilly and Co (LLY.N) are joining forces to develop a blood test for Alzheimer’s disease, and plan to kick off a two-year clinical trial involving hundreds of volunteers with the aim of winning U.S. regulatory approval. The effort, unveiled in a statement on Wednesday, comes as Lilly as well as Eisai (4523.T) and Biogen (BIIB.O) are gearing up to sell drugs aimed at slowing the advance of the mind-robbing illness, but their use will require a diagnosis at earlier disease stages than is the norm today. Roche Holding AG would recruit several hundred volunteers with early signs of dementia over the next 18 to 24 months with trial data potentially ready for a U.S. regulatory filing in 2025, Bruce Jordan, leader of Personalized Healthcare Solutions at Roche Diagnostics, told Reuters. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has asked Roche to recruit a significant number of patients at primary care facilities ...
Finding the ultimate treatment for breast cancer is still a dream for all the pharma companies worldwide. At present, only hormonal therapy, Pfizer’s Ibrance, Eli Lilly’s Verzenio and Novartis’s Kisqali are available for breast cancer treatment.
Collaboration between China's National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases and Lilly aims to improve care for people living with Type 2 diabetes in China - The Lilly and NCCD collaboration will address four strategic areas to advance scientific understanding and medical education related to diabetes and cardiovascular disease
Eli Lilly and Incyte’s second attempt to get U.S. approval of rheumatoid arthritis drug baricitinib could be scuppered again by lingering FDA concerns about safety. A briefing document published ahead of the April 23 advisory committee meeting on baricitinib suggests that Lilly and Incyte’s lightning-fast amendment and refile of the dossier hasn’t added enough data to persuade the FDA to change its stance on the risk of blood clots with the JAK inhibitor.
Eli Lilly and Company and Sigilon Therapeutics, a privately held biopharmaceutical company, announced a global collaboration to develop encapsulated cell therapies for potentially treating Type 1 diabetes. The deal is worth up to $473 million. Sigilon is focused on discovering and developing “living therapeutics” using its Afibromer technology product platform.
Eli Lilly’s Verzenio has been given another green light in the US for breast cancer, significantly expanding the drug’s treatment scope.
US regulators have expanded the scope of Eli Lilly’s plaque psoriasis drug Taltz to include the treatment patients with psoriatic arthritis.
Eli Lilly and Company (LLY) and CureVac AG have announced a global immuno-oncology collaboration focused on the development and commercialization of up to five potential cancer vaccine products based on CureVac's proprietary RNActive® technology. The companies will use messenger RNA (mRNA) technology that targets tumor neoantigens for a more robust anti-cancer immune response.
The DDF initially aimed to raise £130 million with committed investments from GlaxoSmithKline, Biogen, Eli Lilly, Pfizer and Takeda, Johnson & Johnson, as well as the U.K. government’s Department of Health and the nonprofit Alzheimer’s Research UK.
Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) and Incyte Corporation (NASDAQ: INCY) announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Arthritis Advisory Committee recommended approval of the 2-mg dose of baricitinib, a once-daily oral medication for the treatment of moderately-to-severely active rheumatoid arthritis (RA) for adult patients who have had an inadequate response or intolerance to methotrexate. While the Advisory Committee unanimously supported the efficacy of the 4-mg dose of baricitinib, it did not recommend approval of the 4-mg dose of baricitinib for the proposed indication based on the adequacy of the safety and benefit-risk profiles.
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