{"id":12201,"date":"2026-05-27T19:13:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T00:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=12201"},"modified":"2026-05-27T19:13:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T00:13:45","slug":"lilly-expands-infectious-disease-research-through-three-vaccine-focused-acquisitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2026\/05\/27\/lilly-expands-infectious-disease-research-through-three-vaccine-focused-acquisitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Lilly Expands Infectious Disease Research Through Three Vaccine-Focused Acquisitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p>Eli Lilly announced plans to acquire three biotechnology companies\u2014Curevo, LimmaTech Biologics, and Vaccine Company\u2014to strengthen its infectious disease and vaccine development portfolio. The acquisitions focus on preventing viral and bacterial infections linked to long-term health complications such as neurological disease, cancer, infertility, and antimicrobial resistance. Key programs include an improved shingles vaccine with fewer side effects, vaccines targeting difficult-to-treat bacterial pathogens like Staphylococcus aureus and gonorrhea, and a next-generation Epstein-Barr virus vaccine platform aimed at preventing diseases associated with EBV, including multiple sclerosis and certain cancers. Lilly said the strategy reflects a broader push toward prevention-focused approaches as infectious diseases continue to pose major global health risks. <a href=\"https:\/\/investor.lilly.com\/news-releases\/news-release-details\/lilly-announces-three-acquisitions-build-infectious-disease\">Read the full story at Lilly<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eli Lilly announced plans to acquire three biotechnology companies\u2014Curevo, LimmaTech Biologics, and Vaccine Company\u2014to strengthen its infectious disease and vaccine development portfolio. The acquisitions focus on preventing viral and bacterial infections linked to long-term health complications such as neurological disease, cancer, infertility, and antimicrobial resistance. Key programs include an improved shingles vaccine with fewer side [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12202,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12201\/revisions\/12202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}