Boehringer Ingelheim announced the company’s intention to pump €25 billion ($27 billion) into its R&D pipeline over the next five years.
The latest results from SURPASS-4, the longest and largest completed SURPASS trial to date, showed consistent activity in maintaining A1C and weight control in the almost two years the study ran. SURPASS-4 is part of the Phase III trial evaluating tirzepatide as a potential treatment for type 2 diabetes.
High Point, North Carolina-based vTv Therapeutics announced positive results from a mechanistic study of TTP399 in type 1 diabetes patients.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration greenlit AstraZeneca’s Farxiga (dapagliflozin) under priority review for the treatment of chronic kidney disease in patients at risk of progression with or without type 2 diabetes.
AstraZeneca’s diabetes drug Farxiga (dapagliflozin) failed to reach endpoints in a Phase III study as a potential treatment for hospitalized Covid-19 patients at serious risk of developing complications.
AstraZeneca’s Farxiga improved survival chances for patients suffering from kidney disease, underscoring the medicine’s role outside the drug’s established field of diabetes.
AstraZeneca reported successful results from the company’s Phase III DAPA-CKD clinical trial of Farxiga (dapagliflozin) in end-stage kidney disease.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Farxiga (dapagliflozin) for the treatment of heart failure in adults with reduced ejection fraction.
AstraZeneca announced new data from five additional analyses of the landmark Phase III DAPA-HF trial, which showed that Farxiga (dapagliflozin) reduced the risk of the primary composite outcome of worsening heart failure or death from cardiovascular causes versus placebo, when added to standard of care.
Independent experts on an FDA advisory panel voted against the use of an already approved drug from Eli Lilly and Boehringer Ingelheim as an add-on to insulin therapy for type 1 diabetes.
