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Lilly Forms Pacts With Korea’s Hanmi …

by Jean-François Tremblay
March 30, 2015 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 93, Issue 13

Eli Lilly & Co. will pay $50 million up front, and as much as $640 million later, to South Korea’s Hanmi Pharmaceutical for global marketing rights—less China, South Korea, and Taiwan—to a drug currently under development. The small molecule, HM71224, is an oral Bruton’s tyrosine kinase inhibitor that could be effective in treating autoimmune diseases including rheumatoid arthritis. It has completed Phase I clinical studies in Europe and will soon go into Phase II trials.

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