H. Lundbeck A/S is the latest pharma company to benefit from the upsurge in interest in hitherto unsuccessful Alzheimer's disease assets driven by the recent controversial US approval of Biogen, Inc.'s Aduhelm, with the Danish drugmaker licensing its discarded candidate idalopirdine to the Chinese-US biotech Denovo Biopharma LLC.
Denovo Dusts Down Lundbeck's Failed Alzheimer's Drug
Three Phase III Misses For Idalopirdine
The Danish group put the 5-HT6 antagonist on the shelf after three failed late-stage trials but Denovo believes that idalopirdine could still work for a subset of Alzheimer's patients.
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