Independent experts are leery because key test results have not been published and the test has not been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration—it’s being sold under more general rules for commercial labs.
The Biogen drug, known as aducanumab, does not cure or reverse Alzheimer’s, but it might modestly slow the rate of decline.
An experimental blood test from Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co. was highly accurate at distinguishing people with Alzheimer’s disease from those without it in several studies, boosting hopes that there soon may be a simple way to help diagnose the condition.
Digging through old data to salvage a seemingly failed Alzheimer’s drug paid off big time for Biogen Inc., but at least one of its rivals has no plans to follow suit.
Seven months after clinical trials for a promising Alzheimer’s drug were halted and the treatment was declared a failure, a new analysis suggests it was actually effective, and the company that makes it plans to move forward in securing federal approval.
The grant, to be paid over five years, will help the IU School of Medicine launch a drug discovery center as part of a strategic partnership with the Purdue Institute for Drug Discovery at Purdue University.
The IU School of Medicine said the grant, its largest-ever National Institutes of Health award, will fund a five-year study of a form of Alzheimer’s disease that affects young people.
While the ultimate outcome remains far from certain, the study is a bright spot—if a tenuous one—in the search for a treatment for Alzheimer’s, where more than 100 experimental drugs have failed.
An independent data-monitoring committee found that the medicine, lanabecestat, was unlikely to meet the goals of the studies, one for early Alzheimer’s and the other for mild dementia related to the disease.
The Food and Drug Administration proposal will create new opportunities for drugmakers after repeated failures from companies including Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co.
The study will focus on early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, which are about 5 percent of patients.
Alzheimer’s disease is rewriting the rules of drug discovery, with companies like Eli Lilly and others abandoning caution to keep pursuing an elusive hypothesis because the potential payoff is so great.
Merck & Co. on Tuesday announced that it will end a study of its once-promising Alzheimer’s disease drug in patients with mild-to-moderate forms of the condition, just three months after Eli Lilly and Co. announced its own setback in a field that’s been littered with failures.
The Indianapolis-based company, which last month struck out in a late-stage clinical trial for a potential Alzheimer’s drug called solanezumab, announced Friday a collaboration with AstraZeneca to develop another possible treatment for the mind-robbing disease.
Eli Lilly and Co. plans to lay off hundreds of U.S. sales representatives in coming months, following the disappointing failure of an experimental drug for Alzheimer’s disease announced last week.
Eli Lilly and Co. employees knew the Alzheimer's treatment solanezumab was not a sure bet. But that didn’t make the pain any less acute after the company announced the drug had failed to demonstrate effectiveness during a 2,100-patient Phase 3 clinical trial.
Analysts are all over the map on how investors should react to the Indianapolis-based drugmaker’s news that a promising drug failed to help patients.
Investors pummeled Eli Lilly and Co.’s stock Wednesday on the news that its experimental drug for Alzheimer’s disease failed to help patients, but a chorus of pharmaceutical analysts say they weren’t shocked by the setback.
The National Institute on Aging is awarding $25 million to the Alzheimer's Disease Precision Models Center, a joint project of the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis and The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor.
Shares in Eli Lilly and Co. fell Tuesday on concerns surrounding the potential approval of a drug designed to treat dementia caused by Alzheimer's disease.
