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Tech Transfer: Lilly, Purdue University Work To Optimize Injectable Therapies

 
• By Joseph Haas

Five-year collaboration between the Indiana-based pharma and university also hopes to develop predictive modeling for clinical development success.

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A longstanding series of small collaborations between geographically adjacent partners – Eli Lilly & Co. and Purdue University – now is resulting in a five-year, $52m technical collaboration in which the pharma and university will try to tackle ways to optimize injectable therapies and develop modeling that can improve the success rate in clinical development.

Announced July 6, the agreement between Indianapolis-headquartered Lilly and Purdue is noteworthy for several reasons, not least of which is that Purdue finds ways to complement Lilly's efforts despite not...

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