USFDA nod to Eli Lilly Olumiant for certain hospitalized Covid patients
OLUMIANT is a once-daily, oral JAK inhibitor discovered by Incyte and licensed to Lilly.
Indianapolis: Eli Lilly and Company and Incyte have announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) has approved OLUMIANT(baricitinib) for the treatment of COVID-19 in hospitalized adults requiring supplemental oxygen, non-invasive or invasive mechanical ventilation, or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) with a recommended dose of 4-mg once daily for 14 days or until hospital discharge, whichever comes first.
"More than two years into the pandemic, COVID-19 is still hospitalizing many people and burdening our healthcare system. I'm grateful to have OLUMIANT as a treatment option for those who require various degrees of respiratory support, from supplemental oxygen to mechanical ventilation or ECMO," said Andre Kalil, M.D., M.P.H., Professor of Medicine at theUniversity of Nebraska Medical Center and principal investigator of the Adaptive COVID-19 Treatment Trial 2 (ACTT-2) sponsored by theNational Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). "I'm encouraged by the FDA's full approval of OLUMIANT for the treatment of these patients based on results from the rigorous, placebo-controlled, double-blind, randomized trials. While there are therapies currently available, there is still an urgent need for more options to help improve outcomes for patients hospitalized due to COVID-19."
The FDA's approval is supported by results from two randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase 3 studies (ACTT-2 and COV-BARRIER, including the COV-BARRIER OS 7 addendum study), announced previously. No new safety signals potentially related to the use of OLUMIANT were identified in the studies.
"Nearly one million people with COVID-19 have been treated with OLUMIANT (baricitinib) in approximately 15 countries worldwide," said Patrik JonssonLilly senior vice president, president of Lilly Immunology and Lilly USA, and chief customer officer. "The full approval reflects both our confidence in OLUMIANT's role in treating these hospitalized patients and Lilly's tireless efforts to support the medical community and patients in the ongoing fight against COVID-19."
Baricitinib has been available in the U.S. under Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) since ovember 2020. An EUA will remain in place for hospitalized pediatric patients 2 to less than 18 years old who require various degrees of oxygen support. The emergency authorization is not an approval and is temporary for the duration where circumstances justify the authorization.
Lilly has submitted applications for regulatory approval or authorization to multiple regulatory agencies around the world and anticipates further regulatory decisions to follow.
OLUMIANT is a once-daily, oral JAK inhibitor discovered by Incyte and licensed toLilly. OLUMIANT is available in the U.S. as 1-mg and 2-mg tablets through Lilly's authorized specialty distributors.
