FDA pan­el of­fers a wa­ver­ing thumbs up for Eli Lil­ly's 2 mg baric­i­tinib, thumbs down on 4 mg

A large pan­el of out­side rheuma­toid arthri­tis ex­perts gath­ered at the FDA to dis­cuss Eli Lil­ly’s $LLY con­tro­ver­sial re-ap­pli­ca­tion for an ap­proval of baric­i­tinib, vot­ing in lop­sided fa­vor of the ef­fi­ca­cy and safe­ty of the 2 mg dose of the rheuma­toid arthri­tis drug, but turned their thumbs down on the 4 mg dose.

Ten vot­ed in fa­vor of the risk/ben­e­fit bal­ance of the 2 mg dose, 5 against. The num­bers were re­versed for the 4 mg, falling 10 against and 5 in fa­vor.

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