
Lilly’s Alzheimer’s drug donanemab slows cognitive decline by 35% in PhIII, setting up showdown with Eisai’s Leqembi
At long last, Eli Lilly has found success in its decades-long effort to develop a treatment for Alzheimer’s disease.
The company announced Wednesday morning that its experimental drug, donanemab, slowed a key measure of cognitive and functional decline by 35% over 18 months in a subset of patients with early Alzheimer’s disease.
The highly anticipated Phase III study, known as TRAILBLAZER-ALZ 2, also succeeded on all its primary and secondary endpoints, bucking a long series of failed Alzheimer’s studies from Lilly and others. The company said it plans to submit the drug to the FDA “as quickly as possible” this quarter.
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