Boehringer Ingelheim and Eli Lilly and Company are pleased to announce a positive opinion from the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA), recommending approval of the investigational sodium glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitor empagliflozin* (if approved to be marketed under the name Jardiance) for the treatment of adults with Type 2 Diabetes (T2D).

Empagliflozin is an investigational compound that belongs to the SGLT2 inhibitor class of drugs that targets glucose directly and works independently of beta-cell function and insulin resistance. Following the CHMP positive opinion, the European Commission generally follows the recommendation and usually issues its final decision for marketing authorisation within two months.