Eli Lil­ly con­ducts an au­top­sy of an Alzheimer’s megaflop

For four years Eli Lil­ly $LLY com­mit­ted one of the biggest clin­i­cal ef­forts in the com­pa­ny’s his­to­ry to prov­ing that it could get solanezum­ab right on Alzheimer’s. Hav­ing nav­i­gat­ed through mul­ti­ple tri­al fail­ures al­ready, in­ves­ti­ga­tors were con­vinced that if they took what they had learned, changed the pa­tient pop­u­la­tion, stick­ing to on­ly pa­tients with a mild form of the dis­ease while us­ing bet­ter di­ag­nos­tics — even chang­ing the end­points in the lead up to the fi­nal read out — they could make a case that this drug could make a sig­nif­i­cant im­prove­ment for pa­tients.

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