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Lilly plans to expand Purdue University collaboration with up to a $250 million investment to accelerate pharmaceutical innovation

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INDIANAPOLIS and WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., May 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) and Purdue University announced today a significant expansion of their long-standing alliance, with Lilly’s planned investment of up to $250 million in the collaboration over the next eight years. This partnership, which has the potential to be the largest ever industry-academic agreement of its kind in the United States, will seek to accelerate innovation at every stage of the pharmaceutical pipeline.

The Lilly-Purdue 360 Initiative aims to achieve several key goals, including discovering and accelerating the delivery of medicines to patients; bridging the gap between laboratory discoveries and clinical applications; creating more resilient, efficient and sustainable supply chains; and deploying innovative, scalable approaches to workforce development. The expanded collaboration is also expected to generate significant economic benefits for Indiana by creating a highly skilled workforce and fostering local innovation.

The earlier agreement, which had been set to expire in 2027, will now extend with four new projects added through 2032. Additionally, it will engage existing joint programs, such as Lilly Scholars at Purdue and the Lilly and Purdue Research Alliance Center (LPRC). Purdue will make space available for Lilly researchers on-site in West Lafayette. Purdue researchers will collaborate in Lilly facilities in Indianapolis and in Indiana’s LEAP Research and Innovation District.

“As potentially the largest single university-industry research agreement in American history, Lilly and Purdue are blazing a new trail to the endless frontier,” said Purdue University President Mung Chiang. “As for our state, when its largest company and the largest university expand collaboration at a scale never seen before, especially in the backdrop of Lilly’s manufacturing facility in LEAP, today marks a monumental watershed in the generation of jobs, workforce, and innovation along America’s Hard-Tech Corridor. We thank Lilly for its pioneering impact on health and medicine in our society and for what is now the largest single research funding, from public or private capital, in Purdue’s history.”

To achieve the initiative’s ambitious goals, Lilly and Purdue will concentrate on several key areas:

Applying AI-powered tools to augment traditional drug discovery methods while leveraging advancements in machine learning and big data analytics to explore disease mechanisms and personalized treatmentsFacilitating technology-enabled approaches to accelerate potential treatments from Phase I clinical studies to regulatory approval and technology transfer into manufacturing — critical focus areas of the Lilly Medicine FoundryIncorporating robotics, AI, and data sciences to quickly scale manufacturing capacity more effectively, with improved compliance and greater sustainabilityEnhancing workforce development to ensure a strong talent pipeline to meet the demands of Lilly and other Indiana employers

“Accelerating the delivery of life-changing medicines demands a highly skilled workforce and continuous innovation across discovery, process development and manufacturing,” said David A. Ricks, Lilly’s chair and CEO. “Through this expanded collaboration with Purdue, we look forward to combining our strengths in advanced technologies and cutting-edge science to pioneer new methods of delivering next-generation medicines to advance human health.”

The Lilly-Purdue 360 Initiative supports Purdue’s One Health initiative, which advances knowledge and innovation related to animal, human, and plant well-being through novel interdisciplinary initiatives and partnerships with industry.

About Purdue University
Purdue University is a public research university leading with excellence at scale. Ranked among top 10 public universities in the United States, Purdue discovers, disseminates and deploys knowledge with a quality and at a scale second to none. More than 107,000 students study at Purdue across multiple campuses, locations and modalities, including more than 58,000 at our main campus in West Lafayette and Indianapolis. Committed to affordability and accessibility, Purdue’s main campus has frozen tuition 14 years in a row. See how Purdue never stops in the persistent pursuit of the next giant leap — including its comprehensive urban expansion, the Mitch Daniels School of Business, Purdue Computes and the One Health initiative — at https://www.purdue.edu/president/strategic-initiatives.

About Lilly 
Lilly is a medicine company turning science into healing to make life better for people around the world. We’ve been pioneering life-changing discoveries for nearly 150 years, and today our medicines help tens of millions of people across the globe. Harnessing the power of biotechnology, chemistry and genetic medicine, our scientists are urgently advancing new discoveries to solve some of the world’s most significant health challenges: redefining diabetes care; treating obesity and curtailing its most devastating long-term effects; advancing the fight against Alzheimer’s disease; providing solutions to some of the most debilitating immune system disorders; and transforming the most difficult-to-treat cancers into manageable diseases. With each step toward a healthier world, we’re motivated by one thing: making life better for millions more people. That includes delivering innovative clinical trials that reflect the diversity of our world and working to ensure our medicines are accessible and affordable. To learn more, visit Lilly.com and Lilly.com/news, or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn. C-LLY

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Black Kite and Sayari Partner to Deliver Integrated Intelligence Across Cyber, Supply Chain, and Corporate Risk

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New integration combines global corporate transparency with continuous cyber risk intelligence to help organizations uncover hidden threats across their extended enterprise

BOSTON and WASHINGTON, April 29, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Black Kite, the leader in third-party cyber risk management, today announced a strategic partnership and integration with Sayari, a leading provider of global corporate transparency and supply chain risk intelligence. Together, the two companies are enabling organizations to gain a unified view of third-party risk by combining deep visibility into global corporate and trade networks with continuous cyber risk monitoring.

As organizations face increasing pressure to manage risk across complex, global supply chains, many struggle with fragmented data spread across multiple tools and teams. This partnership addresses that challenge by bringing together Sayari’s unmatched insight into corporate ownership, trade activity, and hidden commercial relationships with Black Kite’s objective, standards-based cyber risk ratings and real-time threat intelligence.

Through the integration, customers can enrich third-party risk assessments with both who an entity is connected to and how exposed they are from a cyber perspective—providing a more complete and actionable understanding of risk across the extended enterprise.

“Risk doesn’t exist in silos—but most tools still do,” said Bob Maley, Chief Security Officer at Black Kite. “By combining Sayari’s global network intelligence with Black Kite’s continuous cyber risk insights, we’re helping organizations move from fragmented signals to a connected, operational view of third-party risk.”

Sayari’s platform delivers visibility into complex commercial relationships using one of the world’s largest collections of corporate and trade data, spanning over 250 jurisdictions worldwide. By integrating this intelligence directly into Black Kite’s platform, customers can more easily identify hidden ownership structures, upstream supply chain dependencies, and potential exposure to financial crime or geopolitical risk—while simultaneously assessing cyber posture.

“Understanding risk today requires more than a single lens,” said Owen Denby, General Counsel at Sayari. “This partnership brings together two critical dimensions of risk—corporate network transparency and cyber exposure—so organizations can make faster, more confident decisions in an increasingly complex global environment.”

The combined solution supports a wide range of use cases, including:

Enhanced due diligence through enriched corporate ownership and cyber risk insightsSupply chain risk management with visibility into N-tier suppliers and their vulnerabilitiesFinancial crime and compliance by correlating beneficial ownership with cyber postureGovernment and national security applications requiring both transparency and cyber resilienceM&A and third-party onboarding with faster, more comprehensive risk assessments

By reducing manual research and connecting previously siloed data, the Black Kite and Sayari integration enables organizations to prioritize risk more effectively, accelerate investigations, and strengthen resilience across their third-party ecosystem.

The partnership reflects a shared commitment to helping organizations navigate the growing complexity of global risk with greater clarity, speed, and confidence.

Bob and Owen did a webinar together in April: From Fragmented Signals to Connected Risk Intelligence, available to watch on-demand.

About Black Kite

Black Kite is the AI-native third-party cyber risk management platform trusted by over 3,000 customers to manage every supplier and every risk across their extended ecosystem. Powered by the industry’s highest-quality risk intelligence, spanning over 40 million companies, Black Kite is differentiated by the accuracy, transparency, and actionability of its data. The platform automates vendor monitoring and risk assessments, surfacing reliable insights into ransomware susceptibility, regulatory gaps, financial exposure, and more. With Black Kite, security and risk teams gain always-on visibility and trusted intelligence to act early, reduce exposure, and stay ahead of third-party threats. Black Kite has received numerous industry awards and recognition from customers. Learn more at www.blackkite.com, or on the Black Kite blog.

About Sayari

Sayari is the leader in Agentic Systems of Work for economic security and risk. Powered by the Sayari Commercial World Model – a digital twin of global commerce resolving 10.6B+ primary-source records from 250+ jurisdictions – Sayari transforms risk and investigative teams from manual data gatherers into decisive mission leaders. By unifying corporate ownership, trade data, and risk intelligence into a single graph, Sayari uncovers connections and typologies that legacy watchlist, adverse media, and point solutions miss, enabling prescriptive execution at scale. Trusted by the world’s most demanding regulators, including U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the U.S. Treasury, and Fortune 500 enterprises, Sayari delivers the evidence-based transparency needed to prove decisions, satisfy regulators and protect global commerce. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., Sayari is used by thousands of professionals across 35+ countries to secure supply chains and dismantle illicit networks. To learn more, visit sayari.com.

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Chronograph Expands Middle East and Asia Presence With Hire of Former Abu Dhabi Investment Council Technology Leader

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NEW YORK, April 29, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Chronograph, leading provider of portfolio monitoring solutions for institutional private equity limited partners and general partners, today announced the hiring of Benjamin Humphrey-Gaskin as Client Development Director based in the United Arab Emirates.

Benjamin joins Chronograph from the Abu Dhabi Investment Council (ADIC), where he served as Head of Investment Technology for nine years. In that role, he led end-to-end ownership of a multi-asset investment technology portfolio spanning front, middle, and back office systems. Prior to ADIC, he was a Senior Manager at EY advising sovereign institutions and asset managers on technology and operating models, and earlier served as a Senior Business Analyst at eFront delivering customized private equity solutions.

This expansion of the Client Development team in the Middle East reflects Chronograph’s continued growth across the region. With 5 of the 10 largest LPs in the world and 8 of the 10 largest GPs leveraging Chronograph, the solution is increasingly selected by the world’s most sophisticated private capital investors – including sovereign wealth funds navigating complex portfolios.

Benjamin commented, “I am delighted to be joining Chronograph at such a pivotal moment. This is a company I have followed closely for many years, watching its reputation grow from strength to strength. Investors in the region are demanding best-in-class systems, and the ability to truly understand their portfolios and access the highest quality data is one of the foremost challenges they are looking to solve. Chronograph is perfectly positioned to meet exactly that need. I look forward to helping build the firm’s presence and driving real impact for clients.”

Michael Santos, Global Head of Sales at Chronograph, added, “Benjamin is exactly the kind of leader we need as we deepen our presence in the Middle East and Asia. His experience deploying investment technology at one of the world’s most sophisticated sovereign wealth funds gives him a rare understanding of the challenges institutional investors in the region face. He’s spent his career advising CIOs, CTOs, and COOs on private capital technology transformation and he knows what it takes to turn portfolio data into actionable insight at institutional scale.”

About Chronograph

Chronograph was founded in 2016 to bring differentiated technology solutions to private capital markets. The firm’s products help institutional limited partners and general partners – including many of the world’s largest private equity and private credit investors – streamline and automate portfolio monitoring, valuations, analytics, and reporting. The firm is backed by Summit Partners, The Carlyle Group, and Nasdaq, Inc. For further information, please visit: www.chronograph.pe

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Command Zero Accelerates SecOps Pipelines with APIs and MCP Server

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New endpoints let Security Operations teams build their own tools and embed autonomous investigations into existing pipelines.

AUSTIN, Texas, April 29, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Command Zero today released a broad set of API endpoints and a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for its Autonomous & AI-Assisted SOC platform. Customers can now drive threat hunts, investigations, manage business context, and trigger remediation programmatically by connecting to Command Zero’s LLM-based agents.

“With aggressive growth in the availability of agentic SecOps capabilities, security leaders and architects are at an architectural juncture – facing a decision to either adopt agentic feature sets being added to existing security tools and platforms, or to instead invest in net-new autonomous SOC platforms – further increasing complexity to an already overwhelming SecOps tools environment. Command Zero is solving this architectural challenge, adding APIs and MCP server access to powerful autonomous investigation capabilities that can be woven into existing tools, workflows, and UI.”
— Dave Gruber, Principal Analyst, Cybersecurity, Omdia

SOCs consist of dozens of separate tools and need seamless connectivity between tools to overcome complexity. With API endpoints and MCP servers, customers can wire the Command Zero platform into their SOAR playbooks, orchestration pipelines, and internal tooling without waiting on vendor roadmaps. Technical alliance partners can build integrations in minutes.

“Opening Command Zero’s advanced investigation engine to developers changes what’s possible. Teams can now use advanced capabilities of the platform as the substrate for custom threat hunting frameworks, CTI-driven analysis, and bespoke tooling. The MCP server extends that to AI agents — which matters as agentic SecOps moves from pitch decks to day-to-day practice.”
— Richard Stiennon, Chief Research Analyst at IT-Harvest

What’s in the release

Investigation APIs. List, start, extend, update, and retrieve investigations against any investigation template.Business context APIs. List, upload, and retrieve context at scale. Pull data in from ServiceNow, CTEM platforms, HR systems, and other sources — no manual console entry.Catalog and schema APIs. Query entity types, data sources, and investigation templates to align external systems with the platform’s data model.Remediation APIs. List remediation templates and execute remediation actions from external systems.MCP server. A wrapper around the APIs that lets Claude and other MCP-compatible agents query Command Zero directly. Analysts can run health checks, list investigations, triage open cases, and build custom dashboards from an AI chat interface.

What customers can build

SOAR playbooks that start a Command Zero investigation the moment an alert fires, then feed upstream response data back into the case as it develops.Custom threat hunting frameworks that ingest threat intelligence, generate hypotheses, deploy them as questions in Command Zero, and run autonomous hunts on a schedule.Internal SOC dashboards built in Claude that summarize weekly activity, automation rates, and open investigations in natural language.MSSPs syncing client business context across tenants automatically, instead of populating each environment by hand.

“The best security platforms are the ones teams can build on. This release puts Command Zero’s investigation engine in the hands of our customers and our technical alliance partners. They can wire us into their pipelines, extend us with their own flows, and connect us to the AI agents working collaboratively with their analysts. That is how a platform earns its place in the SOC. These APIs and MCP servers unlock a new class of joint solutions with our partners.”
— Dov Yoran, Co-founder and CEO, Command Zero

What’s next

The current release covers the core surface customers need to start building. More API endpoints will follow, shaped by anchor customers’ and partners’ feedback. Command Zero will also publish sample integrations and reference implementations in the weeks following the launch.

About Command Zero

Command Zero is the Autonomous & AI-Assisted SOC platform, built to transform security operations in complex enterprise environments. The platform accelerates threat hunting, triage, analysis and response. Command Zero enables all users to perform at the highest level by ensuring consistent, repeatable, auditable investigations with automated reporting.

Command Zero was named a Top 10 Finalist in the 2025 RSA Innovation Sandbox and serves some of the largest organizations in the world. The company is headquartered in Austin, TX with presence in Calgary Alberta, Canada.

Learn more at https://www.commandzero.ai and follow the Command Zero LinkedIn page.

Media contact: press@cmdzero.io

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