Tired of fin­ish­ing in last place, Eli Lil­ly’s new R&D chief wants to shake things up

Bern­stein’s Tim An­der­son has been hold­ing some in-depth dis­cus­sions with the ex­ec­u­tive team at Eli Lil­ly, in­clud­ing Dan Skovron­sky, the in­com­ing head of R&D. And it’s clear that Skovron­sky — who’s tak­ing Jan Lund­berg’s place June 1 — in­tends to get more ag­gres­sive in ear­ly-stage de­vel­op­ment as he works to com­plete­ly shed a well-earned rep­u­ta­tion for a go-slow clin­i­cal ap­proach that has fre­quent­ly put them at the end of a long line of ri­vals.

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