GE and Lilly to collaborate on cancer drug analysis

21 October 2007

GE Healthcare, through its GE Global Research division headquartered in Niskayuna, in the USA, is to collaborate with US drug major Eli Lilly on the development of ways to predict responses to various cancer treatments.

During the collaboration, terms of which were not disclosed, Lilly will provide its cancer drug expertise and anonymous tissue samples from patients involved in cancer drug trials for use in GE's development of image analysis tools capable of identifying therapeutic effects. Richard Gaynor, Eli Lilly's vice president of cancer research and global oncology, said that the deal would focus on "finding the right dose of the right medication at the right time."

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