Clinical Trials

Study: Arthritis drug co-developed by Lilly shows promise

November 12, 2010
 IBJ Staff and Bloomberg News
Lilly paid $90 million in 2009 to acquire the global rights to the treatment in a bid to beef up its pipeline of medications for autoimmune diseases.
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Eli Lilly will have to beat odds to meet drug-rollout goals

October 30, 2010
J.K. Wall
Eli Lilly and Co. executives have said repeatedly that the company’s bulging pipeline will produce two new drugs per year, beginning in 2013. But only three times in the past six decades has Lilly been able to launch two or more new drugs in back-to-back years.
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Lilly suspends clinical trials after diabetes treatment fails

October 20, 2010
Bloomberg News
Eli Lilly and Co. and its development partner said an experimental diabetes treatment failed to help patients in a late-stage study, the second setback for a Lilly diabetes drug candidate in two days.
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UPDATE: Lilly, others see stock slide after drug rejection

October 20, 2010
Bloomberg News
Stock in Eli Lilly and Co., Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Alkermes Inc. dropped after they were rebuffed a second time in a bid to gain U.S. approval of a once-weekly version of the diabetes drug Byetta.
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Q&A

October 20, 2010
J.K. Wall

Amy Zucker is president of Indianapolis-based Synergy Marketing Group. Her firm was recently hired by Indianapolis-based ImmuneWorks Inc. to use a new website and search engine optimization to help recruit patients for a Phase 1 trial of ImmuneWorks experimental medicine idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. The Web strategy is a new wrinkle on patient recruitment—in addition to the traditional partnerships with disease specialists at academic medical centers—that Zucker hopes leads to lower costs and faster clinical trials. Phase 1 clinical trials cost nearly $16,000 per patient.

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FDA demands more tests on new Lilly diabetes drug

October 19, 2010
J.K. Wall
Eli Lilly and Co. will have to wait at least 18 months and conduct more studies before it wins market approval of a once-weekly version of diabetes drug Byetta, a potential billion-dollar drug.
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Lilly's Erbitux shows mixed results in cancer studies

October 11, 2010
Bloomberg News
In combination with chemotherapy, the drug failed to help colon-cancer patients in a European trial but did delay the spread of breast cancer in some patients with a certain type of aggressive tumor.
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Pearl IRB first firm in state to pre-screen clinical drug trialsRestricted Content

August 21, 2010
Chris O'Malley
Two former Eli Lilly and Co. employees launched the firm that promises to attract more clinical trial business to the state.
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Lilly halts development of Alzheimer's drug

August 17, 2010
 IBJ Staff and Associated Press
Studies showed that the treatment did not slow the disease's progression. It's just the latest setback for the pharmaceutical giant, which lost a patent lawsuit over a major drug last week and faces an unprecedented number of patent expirations through 2014.
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Diagnostics division to help Lilly tailor treatmentsRestricted Content

July 10, 2010
J.K. Wall
Eli Lilly and Co. is launching a diagnostics division to produce tests that can winnow out the patients most likely to benefit from a Lilly drug.
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Lilly, Amylin stock rises on drug postponement

June 18, 2010
 IBJ Staff and Bloomberg News
Roche Holding AG's decision to postpone its experimental diabetes drug is helping boost shares in Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc. and drug partner Eli Lilly and Co.
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Lilly, GE announce cancer diagnostic breakthrough

October 21, 2009
J.K. Wall
Eli Lilly and Co. and General Electric Co. say they've made a breakthrough in cancer research that could help Lilly cut the size and cost of its clinical trials.
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Endocyte receives $26M infusion from investors

October 16, 2009
West Lafayette-based Endocyte Inc. announced Friday that it has closed on $26 million in equity financing to help the company continue developing cancer-fighting drugs.
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AIT Laboratories leaps up Inc.'s list

August 24, 2009
 IBJ Staff
The Indianapolis-based forensics, clinical and pharmaceutical testing firm now ranks 598, up from 1,466 a year ago. The list is based on percentage of revenue growth.
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Lilly's Effient launch just one of its many challengesRestricted Content

August 3, 2009
Greg Andrews
Eli Lilly and Co. has blasted past analysts’ earnings projections for two straight quarters. But if Lilly officials take that as a sign they can breathe easier, they need only flip through a stack of Wall Street research reports on the company.
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Lilly cancels trials for experimental MS drug

July 28, 2009
J.K. Wall
Eli Lilly and Co. and a development partner has canceled clinical trials on an experimental drug to treat multiple sclerosis after the drug failed to delay progression of the disease in trial patients.
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In spite of criticism, Lilly saves livesRestricted Content

March 30, 2009
Steven J.
My wife, Becky, is alive today because of Lilly and its trial drug Enzastaurin, a great surgeon, and a terrific team of local doctors.
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Biotech push may help offset generic competition; some analysts skepticalRestricted Content

February 2, 2009
J.K. Wall
Lilly executives want to make biotech their top focus.
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OBS Medical hopes to capture pharma's heartRestricted Content

January 19, 2009
J.K. Wall
The latest product to come out of Carmel-based OBS Medical may be just what the doctors ordered. The doctors working for major pharmaceutical companies, that is.
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Generic meds cost more than consumers realizeRestricted Content

December 15, 2008
Generic drug makers drive up the cost of name-brand drugs developed by locally based Eli Lilly and Co. and other pharmaceutical firms.
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Lilly taps hedge fund to cut research costs for Alzheimer's drugsRestricted Content

August 11, 2008
J.K. Wall

Eli Lilly and Co.'s unorthodox efforts to develop new treatments for Alzheimer's disease--if successful--could usher in a new approach to drug development. The Indianapolis-based pharmaceutical company announced that a New York hedge fund, TPG-Axon Capital, will invest up to $325 million to help cover the exorbitant development costs of two experimental compounds to treat Alzheimer's disease.

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Lilly expects FDA approval of long-acting version of ZyprexaRestricted Content

February 4, 2008
J.K. Wall
Eli Lilly and Co. hopes to extend the life of its best-seller Zyprexa with a potentially lucrative, long-acting form of the antipsychotic drug. But first, the Indianapolis-based drugmaker must win over a panel of medical experts convened by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Feb. 6.
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