The US Food and Drug Administration’s’s breakthrough therapy designation program provided fireworks in what was otherwise a quiet week at the FDA, thanks to not one but two designations in Alzheimer’s disease on the heels of one of one of the agency’s most controversial approvals ever, Biogen, Inc./Eisai Co., Ltd.’s Aduhelm (aducanumab), in the same space.
Lilly plans to follow the precedent set by the FDA’s accelerated approval of Aduhelm for AD based on a surrogate...





