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Lilly is one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies. It entered gene editing by buying Verve Therapeutics in 2025 for around a billion dollars, acquiring a programme designed to lower cholesterol permanently with a single treatment. The purchase is a signal that large pharmaceutical companies now see in vivo editing as a serious commercial proposition rather than a science project.
Eli Lilly and Company acquired Verve Therapeutics in 2025 for approximately $1 billion plus contingent value rights, adding in vivo base editing for cardiovascular disease to a portfolio spanning metabolic, oncology and neuroscience medicines. The transaction is among the clearest indications of large-pharma conviction in the modality.
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- Eli Lilly and Company · 2025
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