Since 1998, there have been more than 100 attempts to develop an Alzheimer’s treatment, and all have failed. Such a product may generate as much as $5 billion annually for Merck, according to analysts
Eli Lilly and Co. on Wednesday will fall off its second “patent cliff” in as many years as its best-selling drug Cymbalta sees its U.S. patents expire.
Edivoxetine, a derivative of Lilly's Strattera drug for attention deficit disorder, was in the final of three stages of testing usually required for marketing approval by U.S. regulators.
Eli Lilly and Co. and Pfizer Inc., which are both suffering through some of the largest patent cliffs in the industry, will split any future costs and profits of an osteoarthritis drug that has stalled in clinical testing.
Eli Lilly and Co. has been counting on torrid growth in China to help offset losses from patent expirations in other markets, but now slower growth in the Chinese economy and bribery allegations against Lilly and two other drugmakers have hampered Lilly’s growth there.
Investors on Friday dumped shares of West Lafayette-based Endocyte Inc. after an independent analysis said an experimental lung cancer drug is unlikely to be declared superior to existing chemotherapy. But two analysts say, to the contrary, the analysis shows the prospects for Endocyte’s drug are as good as ever.
In a new round of predictions this month, Wall Street analysts indicated they expect Eli Lilly and Co.’s revenue to fall next year and to remain below 2013 levels until 2020.
In a series of presentations, Lilly executives stretched themselves in four directions at once to convince investors and stock analysts that the company will bend but not break next year, and then snap back stronger than ever in 2015.
Psoriasis is linked to higher rates of heart disease and diabetes, and a third of patients also develop a form of arthritis. About 125 million people worldwide have the skin condition, including 7.5 million Americans.
Eli Lilly said a potential breast cancer treatment missed its main goal in a late-stage study. However, the drugmaker will seek approval to use the treatment in stomach cancer patients after ramucirumab performed better in a separate study.
If approved, the drug would be a potent boost to Lilly’s product portfolio. It would also mean a critical new therapy for a cancer that’s proven difficult to treat.
The trial of 2,100 patients, called Expedition III, will use new measures of cognitive function, such as the ability to do tasks like cooking or driving, or remembering words after a delay.
Lilly officials said they will push ahead with the first-of-a-kind imaging chemical, despite the mostly negative ruling by Medicare officials.
Drug companies like Eli Lilly and Co. can be sued for paying rivals to delay low-cost versions of popular medicines, the U.S. Supreme Court said in a decision that rewrites the rules governing the release of generic drugs.
Eli Lilly and Co. will pay Canadian drug developer Transition Therapeutics Inc. at least $7 million and up to as much as $247 million to take over the development of a potential diabetes treatment.
Eli Lilly and Co. is seeking to revoke a patent held by a Johnson & Johnson unit, arguing at a London court it might delay availability of a potential treatment for Alzheimer’s disease.
The Indiana University School of Medicine has launched 12 companies in the past 18 months—a burst of startup activity the school has never seen before.
Johnson & Johnson, the world’s largest seller of health-care products, won approval for the first in a new family of diabetes drugs, giving them the edge against rivals including Eli Lilly and Co. that are developing similar medicines.
Eli Lilly and Co. said Monday that it has submitted a new type 2 diabetes treatment it is developing with German drugmaker Boehringer Ingelheim to the Food and Drug Administration.
Federal regulators are pressing the Supreme Court to stop big pharmaceutical corporations from paying generic drug competitors to delay releasing their cheaper versions of brand-name drugs. They argue these deals deny American consumers, usually for years, steep price declines.
