Lilly In Collaboration To Screen NIH Pharmaceuticals Collection, Make Pharmacology Data Public

Lilly Research Laboratories will apply its Phenotypic Drug Discovery assays to 3,800 approved and investigational small molecule drugs from the National Institutes of Health’s collection of all known drugs approved for human use, with the goal of improving drug development by providing a better understanding of how drugs work in complex human systems. The project should take 12 to 18 months, and all data will be made public following the Human Genome Project model.

“If we’re going to get better at making drugs that do good things and don’t do bad things, then we...