TOKYO and CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 16, 2023 – Eisai Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Tokyo, CEO: Haruo Naito, "Eisai") and Biogen Inc. (Nasdaq: BIIB, Corporate headquarters: Cambridge, Massachusetts, CEO: Christopher A. Viehbacher, "Biogen") announced today that Health Canada has accepted a New Drug Submission (NDS) for lecanemab (brand name in the U.S.: LEQEMBI™), an investigational anti-amyloid beta (Aβ) protofibril* antibody, for the treatment of early Alzheimer’s disease (mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and mild AD dementia) with confirmed amyloid pathology in the brain.
Eisai’s affiliates in China are wholly-owned by Eisai Co., Ltd. (Eisai), a Japanese multinational pharmaceutical company with strong R&D capabilities, as global headquarter in Tokyo and headquarter of China in Shanghai.
Eisai has grown smoothly since entering the Chinese market in the early 1990s and the total …