Boehringer Ingelheim announced the company’s intention to pump €25 billion ($27 billion) into its R&D pipeline over the next five years.

Eli Lilly

The U.S. health regulator approved Eli Lilly and partner Boehringer Ingelheim’s drug, Jardiance, for expanded use in reducing the risk of death and hospitalization for all patients with heart failure.

Lifebit Biotech Ltd. announced the beginning of a long-term partnership with Boehringer Ingelheim to utilize Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) for the detection and early reporting of global disease outbreaks using real-world data harvested from scientific publications and other open sources.

Germany’s Boehringer Ingelheim partnered with Denmark’s Zealand Pharma A/S to study the GLP-1/glucagon dual agonist BI 456906 in two Phase II trials as a potential treatment for adults who are overweight or obese and for adults with non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH).