Eli Lilly steers into Foghorn’s gene traffic control drugs with $380M pact in cancer

Eli Lilly is building its cancer drug pipeline via a research alliance with Foghorn Therapeutic, a biotech whose technology discovers drugs addressing targets in a cellular system that regulate the way genes are turned on and off. In paying its new partner $380 million up front, Lilly is also placing yet another bet on targeted protein degradation drugs.