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Pharmaceutical Chemicals

Evonik will make Alzheimer’s drug candidate for Cassava

by Michael McCoy
March 12, 2021 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 99, Issue 9

 

A photo of a man looking into a reaction vessel.
Credit: Evonik Industries
Evonik acquired the Lafayette, Indiana, facility from Eli Lilly and Company in 2010.

Evonik Industries has signed an agreement to produce clinical-grade supplies of simufilam, a developmental Alzheimer’s disease treatment, for the biotech firm Cassava Sciences. Cassava says it is talking with the US Food and Drug Administration about beginning Phase 3 studies of simufilam later this year. Evonik will produce the small molecule at its facility in Lafayette, Indiana.

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