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Eisai Co., Ltd. announced today that its Thai sales subsidiary Eisai (Thailand) Marketing Co. Ltd. (“Eisai Thailand”) made an agreement to collaborate in supporting access to treatments for dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease, in Thailand with Thai Life Insurance Public Company Limited, a leading life insurance company in Thailand. In Thailand, the number of people suffering from dementia is expected to increase significantly from the current 600 thousand to 1.1 million by 2030 due to the rapid aging of the population(1), and the financial burden of the people suffering from dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease, and their families due to care is ... Read more

Eisai Co., Ltd. and Biogen Inc. (Nasdaq: BIIB) announced positive topline results from Eisai’s large global Phase 3 confirmatory Clarity AD clinical trial of lecanemab (development code: BAN2401), an investigational anti-amyloid beta (Abeta) protofibril antibody for the treatment of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) due to Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and mild AD (collectively known as early AD) with confirmed presence of amyloid pathology in the brain. Lecanemab met the primary endpoint (CDR-SB: Clinical Dementia Rating-Sum of Boxes*) and all key secondary endpoints with highly statistically significant results. Eisai will discuss this data with regulatory authorities in the U.S., Japan and Europe ... Read more

Eisai Co., Ltd. announced today that the Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network Trials Unit (DIAN-TU), led by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has enrolled the first subject in the phase II/III study (Tau NexGen study). The study will assess the effect of Eisai’s investigational anti-microtubule binding region (MTBR) tau antibody E2814, in dominantly inherited Alzheimer’s disease (DIAD). People who have genetic mutations of DIAD are known to develop Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and will likely develop symptoms at around the same age their affected parents did, often in their 50s, 40s or even 30s. The major AD pathologies are ... Read more

Eisai Co., Ltd. announced today that it has pledged to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emission which causes global warming, with an aim to achieve carbon neutral, and has set its new medium- to long-term target for achieving the goals. – Medium-term target: Achieving 100% renewable energy usage by 2030Eisai will switch all electric energy, which accounts for 65.3% (as of FY2019) of the total energy usage used by the entire corporate group, to renewable energy. (Aiming zero CO2 emitted by the use of electric power classified in Scope 2.)– Long-term goal: Achieving carbon neutrality by 2040 Eisai will ensure the ... Read more