PURDUE SECURES TIES TO PHARMACEUTICALS

With the flourish of a few pens, Purdue University cemented a partnership with Eli Lilly and Co. that will make the Chao Center for Industrial Pharmacy and Contract Manufacturing the sole U.S. producer of a drug that fights tuberculosis. The contract, signed Thursday during the dedication ceremony for the 12,000 square-foot, $6.5 million center, specifies that Purdue will manufacture Seromycin, a generic of the antibiotic Cycloserine — one of only four drugs proven effective against often deadly forms of what is known as multidrug-resistant tuberculosis.
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