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Diagnostics

FDA approves Lilly’s Alzheimer’s diagnostic

by Michael McCoy
June 5, 2020 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 98, Issue 22

 

The structure of 18F-flortaucipir.

The US Food and Drug Administration has approved Eli Lilly and Company’s Tauvid (18F-flortaucipir), the first diagnostic agent to image tau neurofibrillary tangles in the brain. The tangles are associated with Alzheimer’s disease. In 2012 the FDA approved a Lilly imaging agent, Amyvid (18F-florbetapir), that detects amyloid plaques associated with the disease.

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