Eisai/Biogen’s Leqembi Sees Clear Path To Regular Approval For Alzheimer’s Disease

US FDA will ask its advisory committee to weigh anti-amyloid drug’s benefit-risk in populations at higher risk for adverse events, but agency says lecanemab’s risks ‘do not appear to preclude traditional approval’ and the CLARITY AD trial demonstrated clinical efficacy and a reduction in brain amyloid.

Clear path
The path from accelerated to traditional approval appears clear for Leqembi. • Source: Shutterstock

Eisai Co., Ltd. and Biogen, Inc.’s Leqembi (lecanemab-irmb) appears on a clear path to becoming the first amyloid-targeting antibody to gain regular approval for Alzheimer’s disease, with US Food and Drug Administration reviewers identifying no obvious efficacy or safety hurdles standing in the way.

In a briefing document released ahead of a 9 June meeting of the Peripheral and Central Nervous System Drugs...

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