Bayer enrolls first phase-3 patients for FXIa inhibitor, Asundexian: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230208005322/en • The OCEANIC program will investigate the efficacy and safety of asundexian (BAY2433334) in the prevention of stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation and also patients with a non-cardioembolic ischemic stroke or high-risk transient ischemic attack (TIA) • OCEANIC-AF and OCEANIC-STROKE are expected to enroll more than 27,000 patients in over 40 countries Bayer’s competition in this arena is BMY/JNJ’s Milvexian (#msg-169818942, #msg-169841711), which is awaiting the start of phase-3.