Chinese breakthrough status for Lundbeck’s bexicaserin

13 October 2025

Danish CNS specialist Lundbeck (LUND: CO) has announced that its investigational drug bexicaserin— for the treatment of seizures associated with developmental and epileptic encephalopathies (DEEs)—has been granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation (BTD) by China's Center for Drug Evaluation (CDE).

DEEs are a heterogeneous group of severe, childhood-onset, rare epilepsies marked by drug resistant seizures and developmental stagnation or regression. 

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