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Podcast: BioCentury This Week
Episode: Ep. 244 - Leqembi's Thumbs-Down in Europe. Plus: Perioperative Cancer, Pediatric Review Vouchers
Description: Europe’s CHMP has again ruled in contrast to FDA for a neurology product, this time on Biogen and Eisai’s Leqembi for Alzheimer’s disease. On the latest BioCentury This Week podcast, BioCentury editors discuss the similarities and differences between Leqembi lecenamab and Aduhelm aducanumab, the first anti-amyloid mAb from Biogen and Eisai and what it means for the next in line from that class, Kisunia donanemab from Eli Lilly. The editors also break down last week’s ODAC meeting, which discussed trials in perioperative cancer for checkpoint inhibitors, and talk about the looming delay in reauthorization of the rare...