Lilly pads cancer drug pipeline with Scorpion deal
- Eli Lilly has agreed to purchase an experimental cancer drug from Scorpion Therapeutics for as much as $2.5 billion, as announced on Monday.
- Scorpion will create a new independent company to manage its other assets and employees, with Lilly taking a minority stake in it.
- Lilly's acquisition includes the drug STX-678, which targets tumors driven by PI3Ka mutations, affecting over 160,000 cancer patients annually in the U.S.
- Lilly's Chief Scientific Officer stated that Scorpion's drug was superior to similar molecules Lilly had developed.
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