LLY

Eli Lilly & Co

A pharmaceutical company whose medicines treat diabetes and obesity (Mounjaro, Zepbound, Trulicity, Jardiance), cancer (Verzenio, Cyramza), immunology conditions, and neurological diseases like migraine and Alzheimer's. Founded in 1876 in Indianapolis by Colonel Eli Lilly, a Civil War veteran and chemist, the firm started as a wholesale drug maker. Its founder opened the lab partly to fight the "snake oil" patent medicines of his day, vowing to sell only high-quality remedies recommended by physicians.