Lilly adds new leadership to new organization Loxo Oncology
December 5, 2019Eli Lilly said Thursday it will work with new leadership and strategic direction in oncology R&D, combining the Lilly Research Laboratories (LRL) oncology organization and Loxo Oncology, which was acquired by Lilly in early 2019.
The new organization, named Loxo Oncology at Lilly, will be led jointly by Josh Bilenker, M.D., Jacob Van Naarden, and Nisha Nanda, Ph.D., and will report into Daniel Skovronsky, M.D., Ph.D., Lilly’s chief scientific officer and president of Lilly Research Laboratories. Lilly today also announced that David Hyman, M.D. will join the leadership team as chief medical officer of the new organization, beginning in January 2020. Dr. Hyman currently serves as chief of the Early Drug Development Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
“The Loxo Oncology acquisition has brought talented people and new approaches to Lilly, and we are excited by what we can achieve by incorporating their discovery and development philosophy at a much larger scale. With the addition of Dr. Hyman, we are further strengthening our leadership team in oncology,” said Skovronsky. “We will focus our efforts on biology insights with the greatest near-term potential for patients. We intend to curate a balanced pipeline of medicines—whether internally or externally discovered—to help even more people with cancer around the world and position Lilly as a premier oncology company.”
The new combined organization will be responsible for discovery research across therapeutic modalities, clinical development and regulatory affairs for oncology. As new medicines approach US regulatory approval, program responsibility will transition to Lilly’s Oncology Business Unit, led by Anne White, for continued clinical development, commercialization and medical affairs support.
The new Loxo Oncology at Lilly organization will have an expanded global presence, with team members in Boulder, Colorado; Indianapolis, Indiana; New York City, New York; South San Francisco, California; Stamford, Connecticut; and Madrid, Spain.