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Lilly Will Acquire Sleep Drug Company

March 12, 2007 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 85, Issue 11

Eli Lilly & Co. will acquire Hypnion, a small Lexington, Mass., neuroscience-based drug company focused on sleep disorders. Steven M. Paul, a Lilly executive vice president, says the purchase "provides Lilly with a broader and more substantive presence in the area of sleep disorder research." Hypnion announced in January that its small-molecule insomnia compound HY10275 had good results in a Phase II clinical trial. Lilly is developing its own insomnia treatment, pruvanserin.

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