CAR-Ts May Be Closer Competitors To Lilly’s Jaypirca Than Fellow BTK Inhibitors

The Loxo@Lilly drug got FDA accelerated approval in mantle cell lymphoma as the first non-covalent BTK inhibitor, enabling its use in post-BTKi disease.

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Lilly's Loxo announced the FDA accelerated approval of Jaypirca • Source: Shutterstock

Eli Lilly and Company's newly approved, Jaypirca (pirtobrutinib), may have the same target as BTK inhibitors already on the market, but it belongs to a different class in terms of how it will fit into the mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) treatment paradigm, and that is key to the company's commercial strategy around the drug.

Lilly's Loxo subsidiary announced 27 January that the US Food and Drug Administration granted accelerated approval of Jaypirca for patients...

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