Lil­ly shows more pos­i­tive Crohn's da­ta for its IL-23 in­hibitor as it con­tin­ues to chase down ri­vals

About a year and a half af­ter pre­sent­ing pos­i­tive topline re­sults in Crohn’s dis­ease, Eli Lil­ly gave its ex­per­i­men­tal IL-23 an­ti-in­flam­ma­to­ry mirik­izum­ab a boost Mon­day with new da­ta.

The fresh in­fo comes from the Phase II study and is a 52-week fol­low-up of the orig­i­nal tri­al. Mirik­izum­ab showed that, af­ter the ini­tial 12-week pe­ri­od, pa­tients who con­tin­ued treat­ment for an­oth­er 40 weeks saw fur­ther im­prove­ment in en­do­scop­ic re­sponse and Pa­tient-Re­port­ed Out­comes re­mis­sion.

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