Health Care Businesses

Lilly licenses Xigris rights to new biotech firm

May 23, 2011
J.K. Wall
Eli Lilly and Co. has agreed to license the U.S. marketing rights of its slow-selling sepsis drug Xigris to a newly created local biotech company called BioCritica that will seek to reinvigorate sales of the medication.
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Lilly drug to detect Alzheimer’s criticized by consumer group

May 11, 2011
Bloomberg News
Eli Lilly and Co.’s Amyvid, an experimental imaging agent to detect signs of Alzheimer’s disease in the brain, shouldn’t be approved because of unreliable study results, a consumer-advocacy group said.
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FDA OKs new diabetes pill from Lilly, Boehringer

May 2, 2011
 IBJ Staff and Associated Press
The Food and Drug Administration says it has approved a new diabetes pill from Boehringer Ingelheim and Eli Lilly for patients who can't control their blood sugar with older medicines.
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Developer plans $13M senior-living center in Westfield

April 27, 2011
 IBJ Staff
Cicero-based developer Mainstreet Property Group LLC plans to build a $13.3 million senior health care center in Westfield. The 65,000-square assisted living facility will employ about 150 people when it opens in 2012.
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Lilly teams with Medtronic on Parkinson's treatment

April 26, 2011
J.K. Wall
Eli Lilly and Co. plans to use an implantable drug-delivery system made by Medtronic Inc. to precisely target patients' brains with an experimental drug for Parkinson’s disease.
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Much unknown about new Cook Group CEO

April 22, 2011
Scott Olson
Carl Cook has been tabbed to replace his father, Bill Cook, who died a week ago. But many in the Bloomington business community know little about him, which reflects the company's strict privacy policy.
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Lilly shareholders fail to remove anti-takeover measures

April 18, 2011
J.K. Wall
A proposal that would have weakened Eli Lilly and Co.’s defenses against an unwanted takeover failed to pass Monday despite a large majority of shareholders voting to remove those barriers for the second straight year.
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Lilly shares falter after quarterly earnings report

April 18, 2011
J.K. Wall
Eli Lilly and Co.’s first-quarter profit beat the expectations of Wall Street analysts, but its stock price slipped anyway Monday morning, along with the broader market.
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FDA wants further testing of Lilly pancreas drug

April 16, 2011
Associated Press
Eli Lilly and Co. Inc. said Friday that the FDA has asked the drugmaker to conduct another clinical trial of its proposed pancreas drug before it resubmits an application to have the drug approved for sale.
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Indiana panel OKs criminal checks on medical workers

April 12, 2011
Associated Press
Physicians, dentists, nurses, veterinarians, pharmacists and other medical workers would have to undergo a criminal background check when applying for a new state license under a bill approved Tuesday by an Indiana House committee.
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Arcadia in danger of stock exchange delisting

April 11, 2011
Scott Olson
The Indianapolis-based health care company's stock, which trades on the NYSE Amex Equities exchange, has closed at an average price of less than 20 cents over a consecutive 30-day trading period, triggering the warning.
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Antidepressants linked to narrowed arteries

April 4, 2011
The study included Eli Lilly and Co. drug Cymbalta, which racked up sales of $3.5 billion last year for the Indianapolis-based drugmaker.
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Drugmaker Lilly launches global service program

March 31, 2011
Associated Press
Eli Lilly and Co. is starting a service program that sends employees around the world to help developing communities and learn about other cultures, as the drugmaker looks to international markets.
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Regulators delay approval of Lilly's Alzheimer’s screen

March 18, 2011
Bloomberg News
The Food and Drug Administration said Lilly needs to create a training program to ensure brain scans are interpreted properly.
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Trade agency to probe Lilly's infringement claim

March 17, 2011
Bloomberg News
Eli Lilly and Co.’s patent-infringement claim over Hospira Inc.’s generic version of the cancer treatment Gemzar will be investigated by a U.S. trade agency with the power to block imports of the copycat drug.
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Lilly's Bydureon falls short of competitor in study

March 3, 2011
Bloomberg News
Bydureon, the diabetes drug being developed by Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc., Eli Lilly and Co. and Alkermes Inc., didn’t control the disease better than Novo Nordisk A/S’s Victoza in a study.
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UPDATE: Bioanalytical researcher opening lab in Indianapolis

March 1, 2011
Advion BioServices is expected to open the lab at Purdue Research Park in Indianapolis in May with 49 employees. Some of the workers may come from Eli Lilly and Co., which is moving its drug-discovery bioanalytical operations to Advion as part of a partnership.
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Eli Lilly neuroscience chief resigns

February 25, 2011
J.K. Wall
David Bredt, vice president of neuroscience research, has resigned “to pursue other opportunities,” according to Lilly spokeswoman Judy Kay Moore. Bredt had overseen Lilly’s development of various drugs, including molecules in late-stage human testing to treat Alzheimer’s and depression.
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UPDATE: Lilly settles pollution suit for $337,500

February 24, 2011
Scott Olson
A complaint filed Wednesday by the U.S. government says Lilly's plant on South Harding Street is emitting high levels of acetonitrile and methanol, considered hazardous air pollutants by the EPA.
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Repeated price cuts take glow off Endocyte IPORestricted Content

February 12, 2011
Greg Andrews
New investors got in for $6 a share—which is less than the average price paid by prior investors, a regulatory filing reveals.
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Lilly takeover provision to be voted on again

February 11, 2011
Scott Olson
The effort to remove an 80-percent approval threshold for takeover bids against the wishes of Lilly's board is on the agenda of the company's April 18 annual meeting.
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Health insurers expect hit from reform rule

February 9, 2011
Associated Press
Major health insurers, including WellPoint, say a provision that requires them to spend a certain percentage of the premiums they collect on care-related costs will eat into earnings this year.
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Lilly collaboration with outside researchers yields first deal

February 8, 2011
Chris O'Malley
Eli Lilly and Co.'s PD2 project attracted 30,000 compounds from researchers in 26 countries. And Lilly scientist Alan Palkowitz said it's just the first of many such collaborations.
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2010 compensation fell about 20 percent for top Lilly execs

February 4, 2011
J.K. Wall
Compensation for Eli Lilly and Co.’s top executives fell last year due to a change to its stock award program and as the company struggled to bring new medicines to market.
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Potential competitor to Lilly drug shows promise in study

February 2, 2011
 IBJ Staff and Bloomberg News
Sanofi-Aventis's experimental diabetes drug lixisenatide, given to volunteer patients once a day, was at least as effective as Eli Lilly and Co. and Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s twice-daily medicine Byetta, a study found.
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