Eli Lilly and Co. has offered to buy three vaccine companies for up to $3.8 billion combined, including up to $1.55 billion for Vaccine Company Inc., whose in vivo nanoparticle (IVN) technologies are designed to enable antigens that elicit durable immune responses, much like virus-like particle (VLP) vaccines, but avoid the VLP manufacturing burden.
As the most active biopharma acquirer of 2026, Eli Lilly and Co. offered to buy three vaccine companies for up to $3.8 billion combined, while it simultaneously released positive early clinical results of a gene editing medicine brought into the fold last year through its buyout of Verve Therapeutics Inc.
