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Eli Lilly will acquire privately held SiteOne Therapeutics, the companies said on Tuesday, giving the drugmaker access to an experimental non-opioid pain drug.

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Transaction will augment Lilly's efforts to advance non-opioid medicines for pain management INDIANAPOLIS , May 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) and SiteOne Therapeutics, Inc. ("SiteOne"), a private biotechnology company developing small molecule inhibitors of sodium channels to treat pain and other neuronal hyperexcitability disorders, today announced a definitive agreement for Lilly to acquire SiteOne. The transaction includes STC-004, a Phase 2 ready Nav1.8 inhibitor being studied for the treatment of pain.

Eli Lilly's (LLY -0.12%) share price soared during the first Trump administration. That momentum continued with Joe Biden in the White House.

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INDIANAPOLIS , May 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) today announced that data from studies of imlunestrant, an investigational oral selective estrogen receptor degrader (SERD), olomorasib, an investigational KRAS G12C inhibitor, LY4170156, an investigational antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) targeting folate receptor alpha (FRα) and Verzenio® (abemaciclib; a CDK4/6 inhibitor) will be presented at the 2025 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, taking place May 30 - June 3 in Chicago. Presentation Highlights Imlunestrant (investigational oral SERD) In an oral presentation, Lilly will share patient-reported outcomes (PROs) from the Phase 3 EMBER-3 trial in patients with estrogen receptor positive (ER+), human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 negative (HER2-) advanced breast cancer (ABC), and a poster presentation will feature expanded EMBER-3 safety analyses.

Though oncology remains the largest therapeutic area in the pharmaceutical industry, the weight management field has caught fire in the past few years. Eli Lilly (LLY -3.04%) is one of the undisputed leaders in developing anti-obesity medicines, with Novo Nordisk (NVO -0.01%) being its biggest challenger.

Cigna's Evernorth unit said a new coverage deal with Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk will bring lower copays for insured patients The company hopes the new discount, which caps monthly out-of-pocket costs at $200 for Wegovy and Zepbound, will convince more employers to offer coverage of the drugs.

The authorization in Australia is for adult patients who are Apolipoprotein E- ε 4 heterozygotes or non-carriers INDIANAPOLIS , May 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) announced today that the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has granted marketing authorization for Kisunla (donanemab), an injection for intravenous infusion every four weeks to treat mild cognitive impairment and mild dementia due to Alzheimer's disease in adults who are Apolipoprotein E ε4 (ApoE ε 4) heterozygotes or non-carriers. Kisunla is the first amyloid-targeting therapy for people with Alzheimer's registered in Australia and the only amyloid plaque-targeting therapy with evidence to support stopping therapy when amyloid plaques are removed.

Novo Nordisk is banking on fresh leadership to help it reclaim the crown in the booming weight loss drug market. The Danish drugmaker last week abruptly announced that longtime CEO Lars Fruergaard Jorgensen is stepping down, as its obesity injection Wegovy loses ground to Eli Lilly's rival treatment, Zepbound.