Eli Lilly completes the acquisition of Point Biopharma

Eli Lilly and Company (LLY) announced the successful completion of its acquisition of POINT Biopharma Global (PNT), a radiopharmaceutical company with a pipeline of clinical and preclinical-stage radioligand therapies in development for the treatment of cancer. “Next generation radioligand therapies hold great promise for delivering meaningful advances against a range of cancers and we are excited to enter this space through the addition of POINT,” said Jacob Van Naarden, executive vice president and president, Loxo@Lilly. “We welcome POINT colleagues to Lilly and look forward to working together to build on their work as we create this new capability within Lilly. In time, I hope we can bring several new radioligand therapies to patients with cancer and improve their outcomes.”