Eli Lilly and Company is an American pharmaceutical company headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, founded in 1876 by chemist and Union Army veteran Colonel Eli Lilly. It was the first company to mass-produce insulin commercially in the 1920s, working from the discovery made by researchers at the University of Toronto, and it later helped mass-produce the Salk polio vaccine in the 1950s; in the 2020s it became one of the most valuable pharmaceutical companies in the world on the strength of its diabetes and weight-loss drug tirzepatide, sold as Mounjaro and Zepbound.
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Company TypeAmerican multinational pharmaceutical company 1 Founded Year HeadquartersIndianapolis, Indiana, United States 1 Connections
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A major pharmaceutical company; classified in the atlas pharmaceutical-industry.
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1. Wikipedia, Eli Lilly and Company Encyclopedia Article
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Eli Lilly and Company, doing business as Lilly, is an American multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, with offices in 18 countries. Its products are sold in approximately 125 countries. The company was founded in 1876 by Eli Lilly, a pharmaceutical chemist and Union army veteran during the American Civil War for whom the company was later named.
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