Highlights from American Diabetes Association meeting include Lilly, AstraZeneca and Sanofi

7 June 2015

The American Diabetes Association (ADA) 75th annual meeting kicked off over the weekend in Boston with a plethora of news on investigational and already marketed diabetes treatments, among which were the following:

Lilly’s insulin peglispro

In newly released Phase III trial data, Eli Lilly (NYSE: LLY) and Company's (NYSE: LLY basal insulin peglispro (BIL) demonstrated statistically significantly lower hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) compared to insulin glargine (Sanofi’s blockbuster Lantus) at 26 and 52 weeks in people with type 1 diabetes. Detailed results from the IMAGINE-1 and IMAGINE-3 clinical trials were presented at the ADA. People with type 1 diabetes in these trials were also taking mealtime insulin.

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