Lilly makes another radiopharma move in collaboration with Aktis Oncology

Eli Lil­ly is again dip­ping in­to the buzzy area of ra­dio­phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals by way of pri­vate biotech Ak­tis On­col­o­gy.

The phar­ma gi­ant will dish out $60 mil­lion up­front and make an undis­closed eq­ui­ty in­vest­ment in the Boston biotech, the com­pa­nies said Tues­day morn­ing. Lil­ly could pay up to $1.1 bil­lion in biobucks and tiered roy­al­ties.

The pact with Ak­tis spans both sol­id tu­mor ra­dio­phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal med­i­cines and di­ag­nos­tics. Lil­ly will choose the tar­gets and dri­ve the glob­al clin­i­cal de­vel­op­ment, the com­pa­nies said.

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