Play­ing catch-up, Eli Lil­ly swoops in with $1.6B cash deal for Ar­mo Bio and its promis­ing PhI­II can­cer drug

Eli Lil­ly’s BD team is on the march, and as promised they’re stay­ing care­ful­ly fo­cused on on­col­o­gy.

This morn­ing Lil­ly $LLY an­nounced that it has ac­quired Ar­mo Bio­Sciences $AR­MO for $1.6 bil­lion in cash — just a few months af­ter their suc­cess­ful IPO de­but on Nas­daq. This is a biotech that in­de­pen­dent in­vestor Brad Lon­car re­cent­ly dubbed as the “next Nek­tar,” com­par­ing Ar­mo to one of the dar­lings in im­muno-on­col­o­gy which al­so has a strat­e­gy in­volv­ing cy­tokine im­muno-stim­u­la­to­ry ther­a­pies.

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