Lilly will make $37m in upfront payment to Sosei Heptares. Credit: Momoneymoproblemz / Wikimedia.

Sosei Heptares and Eli Lilly and Company have signed a partnership for the discovery, development and commercialisation of small molecules that modulate new G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) targets linked to diabetes and metabolic diseases. 

This alliance will utilise Sosei’s StaR technology and structure-based drug design (SBDD) platform along with wide-ranging drug development and marketing capabilities and therapeutic area abilities of Lilly in these disease areas. 

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According to the deal, Sosei will work on a variety of GPCR targets suggested by Lilly to offer new target-selective small molecule hit candidates for advanced development and marketing.

On signing the agreement, Lilly will make $37m in upfront payment to Sosei Heptares, which is also entitled to get up to $694m on meeting development and commercial milestones.

Additionally, Sosei Heptares will receive tiered royalty payments on product sales worldwide.

Sosei Heptares UK Research & Development head Matt Barnes said: “This new agreement with Lilly further reinforces our position as a global partner of choice for GPCR-focused drug discovery targeting major diseases where patients remain in need of new and effective therapies. 

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“Lilly is a recognised world leader in diabetes and metabolic diseases, and we look forward to a collaboration that brings together our respective and complementary expertise with the goal of identifying and developing novel candidates to advance in these important areas of unmet need.”

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