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JAK Inhibitors Target Arthritis

by Rick Mullin
November 26, 2012 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 90, Issue 48

Incyte has earned a $50 million milestone payment from Eli Lilly & Co. for the initiation of Phase III trials on baricitinib, Incyte’s oral treatment for rheumatoid arthritis. Incyte disclosed the payment a week after FDA approved Pfi­zer’s oral rheumatoid arthritis drug Xeljanz. Both drugs are JAK inhibitors, which target signaling pathways inside cells that play a role in the inflammation involved in arthritis. Pfizer says Xeljanz is the first JAK inhibitor for rheumatoid arthritis and the first new oral rheumatoid drug in more than 10 years.

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