Eisai culls pipeline as Aricept sales plummet

Eisai has discontinued one Phase III development project and dropped several others at Phase II as it reorganises R&D priorities against a background of sharply lower sales of its once blockbuster Alzheimer's disease product Aricept (donepezil).

Eisai has discontinued one Phase III development project and dropped several others at Phase II as it reorganises R&D priorities against a background of sharply lower sales of its once blockbuster Alzheimer's disease product Aricept (donepezil).

Global sales of the acetylcholinesterase inhibitor dwindled to ¥147.1 billion ($1.84 billion) in the fiscal year ended 31 March, a...

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