Eli Lilly launches Alzheimer's drug Donanemab in India

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By Rishika Sadam

- U.S.-based drugmaker Eli Lilly LLY.N on Wednesday launched its Alzheimer's drug Lormalzi, also known as Donanemab, in India.

Here are the details:

  • The drugmaker has priced the 350 mg vial of Lormalzi at 91,688 rupees ($957), the company told Reuters

  • The drug is expected to become commercially available later this month

  • The therapy will be administered as an intravenous infusion once every four weeks to remove amyloid plaques in the brain associated with Alzheimer's progression

  • The drug has received marketing authorisation from India's Central Drugs Standard Control Organization for patients with mild cognitive impairment or mild dementia stages of Alzheimer's

  • Lilly's Donanemab was approved in the U.S. last year under the brand name Kisunla

  • A Lilly executive said earlier this year that India would play a bigger role in the company's global strategy, including as a manufacturing and export hub

  • Winselow Tucker, president and general manager of Eli Lilly and Company (India), said in February the drugmaker planned to bring additional products to India


($1 = 95.7600 Indian rupees)