Eli Lil­ly's on­col­o­gy R&D spree con­tin­ues with $576M deal to buy a start­up and reel back Au­ro­ra A drug

Eli Lil­ly’s on­col­o­gy deal spree is con­tin­u­ing this morn­ing with a $576 mil­lion deal to buy out a Mon­tre­al-based start­up and reel back in an ear­ly-stage can­cer drug for its pipeline.

Lil­ly, which has been beef­ing up its can­cer R&D group in an­tic­i­pa­tion of a burst of new projects in the field, is pay­ing $111 mil­lion up front to buy Mon­tre­al-based Au­r­Ka Phar­ma with an­oth­er $465 mil­lion in mile­stones on the ta­ble.

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