The development of new medicines for autoimmune diseases has brought Sitryx Therapeutics and Eli Lilly & Co. together in an exclusive research and licensing collaboration where the young British biotech will be responsible for drug discovery while the US pharma giant will foot the bill and eventually get commercial rights to the resulting therapies.
Manipulating Metabolism: Lilly Links With UK Biotech Sitryx
Pair Will Act On Intracellular Metabolic Pathways To Modify Diseases
Duo will study up to four novel preclinical targets identified by Sitryx that may lead to potential new drugs for autoimmune diseases, which Lilly would then commercialize.

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