(This story was updated to add new information.) Eli Lilly and Co. is investing an additional $4.5 billion into the LEAP Research and Innovation District in Lebanon, bringing the drug company’s total investment in the area to more than $13 billion, company officials and Gov. Eric Holcomb announced Wednesday morning.
This latest $4.5 billion investment will create the Lilly Medicine Foundry, which will employ about 400 full-time employees including research scientists, engineers and lab technicians who will produce medications and scale manufacturing of medicine for clinical trials.
The manufacturing facility will combine research and manufacturing in one site by 2027, in what Lilly says is the first known facility of its kind in the world . Employees at the medicine foundry will work on drugs such as pills, injections and genetic medicines, such as gene therapy…