Germany's Evotec partners with Lilly to research metabolic diseases

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[January 18, 2022]  BERLIN (Reuters) - German biotech company Evotec said on Tuesday that it had entered into a drug discovery collaboration in metabolic diseases with U.S. drugmaker Eli Lilly.

The total potential value of the collaboration, which will run for three years, is up to $1 billion.

As part of the collaboration, Evotec will explore potential drug candidates for the treatment of diabetes and chronic liver disease, the Hamburg-based company said.

Eli Lilly has the right to select up to five programmes developed within the partnership and then assume responsibility for further development and commercialisation.
 

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Evotec will receive an upfront payment from the U.S. company, the amount of which was not disclosed, and will receive performance-based milestone payments of up to $180 million per programme and royalties on any products from the collaboration.

(Reporting by Patricia Weiss, Writing by Miranda Murray; Editing by Paul Carrel)

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