Eli Lilly and Company (Lilly) announced that its selective RET inhibitor selpercatinib, marketed as Retevmo, achieved a highly statistically significant improvement in investigator-assessed event-free survival when used as adjuvant therapy in patients with stage II–IIIA RET fusion-positive non-small cell lung cancer, based on topline results from the Phase 3 LIBRETTO-432 trial. The study compared selpercatinib […]
Eli Lilly and Company has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Orna Therapeutics, Inc., gaining access to the biotechnology firm’s circular RNA platform and its clinical trial ready in vivo CAR-T candidate ORN-252 targeting CD19 for B cell driven autoimmune diseases. The deal, valued at up to 2.4 billion dollars in cash including milestone […]
Eli Lilly and Company has announced a $3.5 billion investment to build a new injectable medicine and device manufacturing facility in Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania. The site will focus on producing next-generation weight-loss medicines, including the investigational triple hormone receptor agonist retatrutide. Set to become operational by 2031, this is Lilly’s fourth new U.S. manufacturing site […]
Eli Lilly and Company has received Breakthrough Therapy designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its investigational antibody-drug conjugate, sofetabart mipitecan, also known as LY4170156. The designation applies to adult patients with platinum-resistant epithelial ovarian, fallopian tube, or primary peritoneal cancer who have received prior treatment with bevacizumab and mirvetuximab soravtansine. The novel […]
Eli Lilly and Company and NVIDIA have announced the formation of a co-innovation lab aimed at accelerating drug discovery using AI, robotics, and advanced compute. With a planned $1 billion investment over five years, the lab will leverage NVIDIA’s BioNeMo platform and Vera Rubin architecture alongside Lilly’s drug development expertise. The initiative represents one of […]
Illumina, Inc. has launched the Billion Cell Atlas, a large-scale genetic perturbation dataset designed to serve as foundational infrastructure for artificial intelligence-enabled drug discovery. Announced alongside strategic collaborations with AstraZeneca, Merck, and Eli Lilly and Company, the platform leverages CRISPR-based genome editing and single-cell RNA sequencing across more than 200 disease-relevant cell lines. This marks […]