AZ, Lilly's BACE Inhibitor Clears Safety Hurdle And Raises Class Hopes
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
AstraZeneca and Eli Lilly are to plough straight ahead with the Phase III part of the AMARANTH study testing their oral beta secretase cleaving enzyme (BACE) inhibitor AZD3293 in early Alzheimer's after an encouraging interim safety review, building confidence in this potential disease-modifying drug class.
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