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Eli Lilly Strengthens the Case for Going Early in Alzheimer’s Treatment
Alzheimer’s disease patients in the earliest stages of their disease benefited the most from Eli Lilly drug donanemab, which is expected to receive an FDA decision by the end of 2023. Full results from the drug’s pivotal study were presented during the during the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference.
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Eli Lilly to Buy Sigilon, Betting the Biotech Can Overcome a Cell Therapy Limitation
Eli Lilly is expanding its diabetes prospects by acquiring cell therapy developer Sigilon Therapeutics. The two companies are already partners in the development of a type 1 diabetes cell therapy currently in preclinical development.
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Payer’s Place: Dawn Maroney
Dawn Maroney, President, Markets of Alignment Health and CEO of Alignment Health Plan, to discuss how they are using technology to provide better service and care to consumers.
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Eli Lilly’s Triple Mechanism Sets New High Mark for Weight Loss Drugs
Eli Lilly’s retatrutide led to an average weight reduction of 24.2%, or 58 pounds, after 48 weeks of treatment in Phase 2 testing. Based on these results, Lilly now plans a comprehensive Phase 3 program that will evaluate the once-weekly injectable drug in weight reduction as well as various complications of obesity.
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Eli Lilly Bets $2.4B on Dice Therapeutics’ Oral Drugs for Psoriasis and More
Eli Lilly’s acquisition of Dice Therapeutics comes eight months after the biotech reported positive data from a Phase 1 study in psoriasis. Dice develops oral small molecule drugs intended to offer alternatives to biologic drugs that are injected or infused.
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Eli Lilly Puts Up $60M for In Vivo Gene-Editing Med for Cardiovascular Disease
Eli Lilly’s partnership with Verve Therapeutics covers the development of a preclinical therapy addressing a protein associated with cardiovascular disease risk. The in vivo gene-editing therapy is a potential one-time treatment.
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Eli Lilly Alzheimer’s Drug Meets Phase 3 Goals, Teeing Up Plans for FDA Filing
Patients treated with Eli Lilly Alzheimer’s disease drug donanemab showed a 35% slowing in decline compared to those given a placebo. Based on the Phase 3 results, Lilly said it would seek FDA approval for the drug by the end of June.
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Eli Lilly Unloads Emergency Nasal Spray Diabetes Drug for $500M Up Front
Eli Lilly is selling to Amphastar Pharmaceuticals global rights to Baqsimi, an emergency treatment for severe hypoglycemia in diabetes patients. The deal come as Lilly turns its focus to novel medicines for diabetes and other indications.
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FDA Rejects Eli Lilly Ulcerative Colitis Drug Over Manufacturing Issues
Rejection of Eli Lilly’s mirikizumab means that two of the four drugs the pharma giant identified as revenue growth drivers for 2023 have failed to pass the regulatory bar. One of those drugs has been approved while the fourth drug still awaits an FDA decision.
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Eli Lilly Places a Small Bet on Confo’s Early-Stage, Non-Opioid Pain Drug
Eli Lilly is paying $40 million up front for rights to a Confo Therapeutics drug in Phase 1 testing as a potential treatment for neuropathic pain. Confo develops drugs that target G-protein coupled receptors.
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Applying Remote Patient Monitoring to Surgery Prep and Recovery, Oncology and Women’s Health
Join us to learn about the latest trends in remote monitoring and how to extend its benefits beyond chronic conditions to more patients – all while using fewer staff resources.
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Eli Lilly’s Insulin: Cheaper for Patients Without Much Financial Hit to the Firm
Eli Lilly is slashing prices for its insulin products and capping a patient’s monthly out-of-pocket costs at $35. But a financial analyst notes that the company can afford to cut prices on older medicines like insulin because the strategy will help it maintain pricing power for innovative new drugs.
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Eli Lilly Turns to Startup Capsida to Bring Gene Therapy Into the Brain
Eli Lilly is paying $55 million up front to begin an alliance with Capsida Biotherapeutics pursuing gene therapies for central nervous system disorders. Capsida’s technology enables the delivery of a gene therapy to a single organ or multiple organs, a capability that could bring such treatments to a wider range of diseases.
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Eli Lilly’s $487M Akouos buyout expands its gene therapy scope to hearing loss
Eli Lilly is acquiring Akouos on the heels of the biotech receiving FDA permission to begin a clinical trial testing its gene therapy for an inherited form of hearing loss. The deal is Lilly’s second gene therapy acquisition following the 2021 buyout of Prevail Therapeutics.
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Eli Lilly’s diabetes portfolio grows with FDA nod for projected blockbuster drug
The FDA approved Eli Lilly drug Mounjaro as a treatment for type 2 diabetes. The decision gives the pharmaceutical giant a new competitor to a blockbuster drug from rival Novo Nordisk, as well as a successor to its blockbuster diabetes drug Trulicity.
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Eli Lilly steers into Foghorn’s gene traffic control drugs with $380M pact in cancer
Eli Lilly is building its cancer drug pipeline via a research alliance with Foghorn Therapeutic, a biotech whose technology discovers drugs addressing targets in a cellular system that regulate the way genes are turned on and off. In paying its new partner $380 million up front, Lilly is also placing yet another bet on targeted protein degradation drugs.
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Infants, kids now have a Covid-19 therapy as FDA expands use of Eli Lilly drug
Eli Lilly’s authorized antibody drug for treating and preventing Covid-19 infection in adolescents and adults is now authorized for pediatric patients, including newborns. While tests are still assessing whether the drug works against omicron, early data suggest a Vir Biotechnology antibody can address the new variant but Regeneron Pharmaceuticals’ antibody drug might not.
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Payer’s Place: Dr. Anil Singh
Dr. Anil Singh shares his insights into the strategies employed by the organization to identify the most effective digital solutions for their members.
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Discover the Next-Gen Platform for Integrated Collaborative Care
Beyond EHRs and digital front doors, reducing the gaps in patient care journeys.
