–No benefit with evacetrapib despite increase in HDL and decrease in LDL The fat lady hasn’t sung, the referee hasn’t counted up to 10, but it’s sure not looking good for the once highly promising class of drugs known as the CETP inhibitors. Bang the Drum Slowly, and Play the Fife Lowly Following the crash…
Third Strike For CETP Inhibitors: Lilly Halts Big Evacetrapib Trial
October 12, 2015 by 2 Comments
For the third time a large trial testing a CETP inhibitor drug has gone down the tubes. On Monday morning Eli Lilly announced that it had terminated ACCELERATE, its large phase 3 trial of the drug evacetrapib. The company said the trial was stopped “due to insufficient efficacy” and that the company planned to discontinue…
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