Marketing Authorization Application for lecanemab as treatment for early Alzheimer’s disease filed in South Korea
Stockholm, June 8, 2023 – BioArctic AB’s (publ) (Nasdaq Stockholm: BIOA B) partner Eisai announced today that Eisai has submitted a marketing authorization application for lecanemab (brand name in the U.S.: LEQEMBI™), an investigational anti-amyloid beta (Aβ) protofibril[1] antibody, for the treatment of early Alzheimer’s disease[2] with confirmed amyloid pathology in the brain, to the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) in South Korea. This application is the first application for lecanemab in Asia outside of Japan and China. Eisai plans to continue further applications for approval in