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On January 6, 2023, the FDA approved lecanemab under the Accelerated Approval pathway, based on evidence of effect on the surrogate endpoint of amyloid removal in the Phase 2 trial, and a reasonable likelihood of clinical benefit (FDA press release; Jan 2023 news). Lecanemab is sold under the brand name Leqembi.
Finally: Big Win on All Outcomes for Lecanemab in Phase 3
2022年10月12日 · 28 Sep 2022. Eisai and Biogen yesterday announced positive topline results from the Phase 3 Clarity trial of their anti-amyloid antibody lecanemab. The drug slowed decline on the primary endpoint, CDR-SB, by 27 percent over 18 months, and also nudged down decline on all secondary clinical endpoints. The incidence of the brain edema known as ...
Rising Leqembi Prescriptions Are Straining Clinic Capacity
Scans can run up to $6,000 and, as of October, started being covered by CMS (Oct 2023 community news). This announcement sparked another surge in demand for lecanemab. “Before, people opted out [of treatment] for that reason,” Russell Swerdlow of Kansas University Medical Center in Kansas City told Alzforum.
Dare We Say Consensus Achieved: Lecanemab Slows the Disease
2022年12月9日 · Overall, lecanemab appeared to slow disease progression by about one-quarter, and caused the brain edema known as ARIA-E in one of eight participants. The data were published in the New England Journal of Medicine November 29, …
Questions, Questions for Donanemab, Lecanemab | ALZFORUM
2024年8月30日 · Donanemab is being trialed in the Colombian kindred, Down’s syndrome. Baseline plaque load best predicts amyloid clearance on donanemab. The fluid biomarker MTBR-243 tau tracks tangle response to lecanemab. The relationship between plaque clearance and cognition is fuzzy. Lilly also presented a few trial updates, including a new one in Down ...
Lecanemab Sweeps Up Toxic Aβ Protofibrils, Catches Eyes of Trialists
2021年11月26日 · A Protofibril Hog Lecanemab differs from other antibodies in late-stage trials in that it was generated against synthetic Aβ protofibrils (Apr 2011 news). Protofibrils are large, soluble, β-sheet aggregates between 75 and 500 kD in size that are a major source of amyloid toxicity (Sehlin et al., 2012).
Lecanemab: FDA Set Accelerated Approval Decision for January 2023
2022年7月7日 · This means the agency will make a final decision within six months, by January 6, 2023. Lecanemab, aka BAN2401, follows the path established by aducanumab, which received accelerated approval last year (Jun 2021 news). On the heels of that approval, the FDA granted lecanemab breakthrough therapy status, a designation that speeds the regulatory ...
Lecanemab Follows Aduhelm’s Path to Accelerated Approval
2021年10月20日 · Eisai/Biogen are already on that path with lecanemab, having applied to the FDA for a marketing license on September 27. Unlike with aducanumab, the companies filed directly under the accelerated-approval pathway, using Phase 2b data that show drastic plaque reduction. Eli Lilly is expected to follow suit later this year with donanemab.
U.S. FDA Gives Green Light to Leqembi, aka Lecanemab
Tools. 06 Jan 2023. The Food and Drug Administration today approved Eisai’s anti-amyloid antibody lecanemab, now called Leqembi, via its accelerated approval pathway. The decision was widely expected based on the positive Phase 2 and 3 results for lecanemab, and because of a similar accelerated approval previously for aducanumab in 2021 (Jun ...
And Then There Were Three: Donanemab Phase 3 Trial Positive
Posted: 05 May 2023. The donanemab Phase 3 outcomes—according to Lilly’s press release—are remarkably like its Phase 2 trial outcomes and the Clarity-AD lecanemab Phase 3 trial. The iADRS mean differences were approximately 3.26 in the targeted intermediate tau group and 2.88 in the combined intermediate/high tau group.