Eli Lilly Canada (“Lilly Canada”) is the Canadian affiliate of Eli Lilly and Company, one of the world’s largest research-based pharmaceutical companies. Our affiliate was founded in 1938 as a result of a collaboration between Eli Lilly and Company and Banting and Best, which produced the world’s first commercially available insulin. Today, we employ approximately 325 people across the country. Our work has broadened, and we now focus on diabetes, cancer, immunology, pain and neurodegeneration. Lilly Canada built our first facility in 1946. Our current Canadian headquarters is in downtown Toronto, Ontario, which keeps us close to hospitals, universities, and research facilities—to our collaborators of the past and the future. Lilly’s Read more