Eli Lil­ly jumps in­to a $473M hunt with Sig­ilon for the Holy Grail in di­a­betes cell ther­a­pies

Stem cell ther­a­pies have gone through every stage of the long and painful hype cy­cle for emerg­ing drug tech­nolo­gies: Start­ing with wild­ly in­flat­ed ear­ly ex­pec­ta­tions through bit­ter dis­il­lu­sion­ment, a trough of de­spair and on to a slow and pa­tient re­cov­ery brought about by years of dili­gent re­search work in the lab.

Paul Wot­ton, who’s seen it all, be­lieves he can now see the off-the-shelf cell prod­ucts of the fu­ture — en­cap­su­lat­ed in what they’ve dubbed Afi­bromer plat­form tech — tak­ing shape at the end of the new­ly ris­ing curve.

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