Lilly's Jaypirca (pirtobrutinib), the first and only approved non-covalent (reversible) BTK inhibitor, met its primary endpoint

  • Pirtobrutinib met the primary endpoint of response rate non-inferiority, favoring pirtobrutinib with a nominal P-value for superiority < 0.05 Progression-free survival data was immature, but trending in favor of pirtobrutinib BRUIN CLL-314 is the first-ever head-to-head Phase 3 study versus a covalent BTK inhibitor to include treatment-naïve patients INDIANAPOLIS , July 29, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) today announced positive topline results from the Phase 3 BRUIN CLL-314 clinical trial of Jaypirca (pirtobrutinib), a non-covalent (reversible) Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitor, versus Imbruvica (ibrutinib), a covalent BTK inhibitor, in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia or small lymphocytic lymphoma (CLL/SLL). This study enrolled patients with treatment-naïve CLL/SLL and those who had been previously treated but were BTK inhibitor-naïve.