Discovering New Drugs

Discovery in pharmaceuticals — like everything else — favors those who go searching in the right places. The drug discovery process at Lilly begins by focusing on specific diseases and unmet patient needs where our strengths can make the biggest difference. Lilly discovery scientists then search for biological targets within the body that play a role in a given disease. They create or find unique molecules that might someday be medicines, and they screen millions of such molecules against the targets to pick promising leads.

Focusing Resources on Patients Needs
Genetic Mapping of Biological Targets
Synthesizing Targets through Combinatorial Chemistry
High-speed Screening through Promising Leads