Lilly Ventures

Lilly Ventures is listed here alongside the business development and partnering side of Lilly, a pharmaceutical group that develops medicines. The group says it works with outside scientists and companies to bring new treatments to patients.

Its site invites biotech innovators to describe their work to a dedicated alliance team.

Products and services

• Partnering: collaboration and research agreements with biotech companies, such as those covering RNA editing and neurological conditions.
• Acquisitions: the group has bought biotech firms, for example one working on hearing loss.
• Venture investing: the group says it has committed capital to biotech through venture investing over about twenty years.
• Alliance management: an office that handles relationships with outside partners.

Who it works with

Biotech founders and research teams with a scientific idea they want to take forward with a large drug developer.

Key facts

• Contact route: an Office of Alliance Management for partnering requests
• Head of Business Development: Kenneth Custer