Build­ing on suc­cess­ful PD-1 pact, Eli Lil­ly li­cens­es di­a­betes drug to Chi­nese part­ners at In­novent

Eli Lil­ly is ex­pand­ing its part­ner­ship with Chi­na’s In­novent in a deal in­volv­ing a di­a­betes drug sit­ting in its Phase I re­serves.

The two com­pa­nies had joint­ly de­vel­oped one of Chi­na’s first home­grown PD-1 agents, scor­ing an ap­proval for Tyvyt (sin­til­imab) late last year for re­lapsed/re­frac­to­ry clas­si­cal Hodgkin’s lym­phoma. This time around, Lil­ly is out-li­cens­ing a piece of its di­a­betes pipeline, a lead­ing fran­chise that has his­tor­i­cal­ly pro­duced the top-sell­ing Trulic­i­ty and Hu­ma­log.

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