Lexicon is trying to rebuild itself around heart and metabolic medicines, but tougher regulators and heavy reliance on partners could slow its next wave of drugs and strain funding. See why delays in key trial plans and shifts in partner priorities could matter for whether its pipeline ever turns into meaningful sales.Read more
Lexicon is betting that two new pills in development can open up big new areas like nerve pain and obesity, while a key study could broaden the uses of one of its existing drugs. At the same time, the plan leans on partners and heavy trial spending, so delays or setbacks could quickly pressure the business.Read more
Catalysts About Lexicon Pharmaceuticals Lexicon Pharmaceuticals is a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and partnering innovative medicines for cardiometabolic diseases and neuropathic pain. What are the underlying business or industry changes driving this perspective?Read more
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Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, focuses on the discovery, development, and commercialization of pharmaceutical products for the treatment of human disease. The company develops sotagliflozin, an orally-delivered small molecule drug for the treatment of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, and ZYNQUISTA (sotagliflozin) for the treatment of type 1 diabetes. It also commercializes INPEFA (sotagliflozin), a once-daily oral tablet to reduce the risk of cardiovascular death, hospitalization for heart failure, and urgent heart failure visit in adults with heart failure or type 2 diabetes, CKD, and other cardiovascular risk factors. In addition, the company develops LX9851, an orally-delivered small molecule drug candidate for the treatment of obesity and associated cardiometabolic disorders, and pilavapadin (LX9211), an orally-delivered small molecule drug candidate for the treatment of neuropathic pain. It has strategic collaboration and license agreements with Viatris Inc. and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company. The company was incorporated in 1995 and is headquartered in The Woodlands, Texas.
