RE: Eli Lilly...19 Apr 2024 14:52
From last year prior to the T/O of Point by Lilly...manufacturing collaboration on Lilly campus was set up well prior to the T/O announcement.
'Over the past few years, we have seen how well-designed radiopharmaceuticals can demonstrate meaningful results for patients with cancer and rapidly integrate into standards of care, yet the field remains in the early days of the impact it may ultimately deliver,” said Jacob Van Naarden, head of Lilly’s oncology unit Loxo@Lilly.
He added that the pharma group “sees the acquisition of POINT as the beginning of our investment in developing multiple meaningful radioligand medicines for hard-to-treat cancers, as we have done in small molecule and biologic oncology drug discovery and development.”
POINT’s earlier-stage pipeline includes PNT2004, a “pan-cancer” therapy targeting fibroblast activation protein-α (FAP-α) in phase 1.
After launching in 2020, POINT has already set up a fully licensed 180,000-square-foot radiopharmaceutical manufacturing facility on Lilly’s campus in Indianapolis, clearing one of the key obstacles to entering the radiopharma category, and also operates an R&D unit in Toronto, Canada.
Analysts have suggested that the market for radionuclide-based cancer therapeutics could top $10 billion a year, with limited competition in the market, as the hurdles to enter the category are set fairly high.'