A combination of Mirati Therapeutics Inc.’s genetic mutation-targeting adagrasib and Eli Lilly and Co.’s older cancer drug Erbitux shrank tumors in 39 percent of patients with advanced colorectal cancer treated in a small trial, the company said on Sept. 19.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Sept. 16 it has revised the FDA’s emergency use authorization for Eli Lilly’s Covid-19 antibody cocktail to include for use in patients who have been exposed to the virus and are at high risk for progression to severe disease.
ProQR Therapeutics is collaborating with Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly to bolster the Dutch biotechnology company’s Axiomer RNA editing platform and create new medicines that could treat a range of genetic disorders.
A proposed class-action lawsuit was filed on Sept. 1 accusing Eli Lilly of age bias.
The U.S. drug regulator asked Pfizer, Eli Lilly and AbbVie to include information about the risks of serious conditions and death from the use of their drugs that belong to a class of treatments known as JAK inhibitors.
Eli Lilly is undertaking a strategic transformation that will result in the formation of new business units. The Indianapolis company’s Bio-Medicines unit will split into two separate businesses, with one focused on neuroscience and the other concentrated on immunology.
In a patent infringement lawsuit filed against Eli Lilly, Teva Pharmaceutical won three and lost six patents. The patent lawsuit was over Teva’s Ajovy (fremanezumab-vfrm) to prevent migraines. Eli Lilly has a competitive migraine drug, Emgality (galcanezumab).
Eli Lilly announced the success of the global health care company’s clinical trial on lebrikizumab as a treatment for people diagnosed with moderate to severe atopic dermatitis (AD).
Eli Lilly is in the news for positive Olumiant data in Covid-19, a drop in Covid-19 product sales for second-quarter 2021, and a protest of one of the company’s ads.
Loxo Oncology, a division of Eli Lilly, and Kumquat Biosciences teamed up in a deal valued at more than $2 billion to discover and develop novel small molecules designed to stimulate tumor-specific immune responses in cancer patients.
