LEXINGTON, Ky. (July 12, 2023) — On July 6, 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted full approval to lecanemab, marketed as Leqembi, for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. The University of Kentucky's Sanders-Brown Center on Aging has been working with this drug and others like it for more than a decade. In January, the FDA approved the drug via the accelerated approval pathway for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. Its move from accelerated approval to traditional approval makes it the first disease-modifying therapy approved for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease in the United States.
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