Ouch: Eli Lil­ly is walk­ing away from Ado­cia deal and its ul­tra-fast in­sulin — for the sec­ond time

A lit­tle more than two years ago, Eli Lil­ly ad­mit­ted it had made a big mis­take in dump­ing Ado­cia (Paris:ADOC) and their pact on the biotech’s ul­tra-fast-act­ing in­sulin for­mu­la­tion, Biochap­er­one Lispro. That orig­i­nal deal was com­plet­ed with on­ly $10 mil­lion for the up­front and $155 mil­lion in mile­stones. To get back in af­ter promis­ing mid-stage stud­ies, Lil­ly had to pay $50 mil­lion up front and of­fered more than three times the orig­i­nal amount in mile­stones – plus R&D sup­port.

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