After buying Apellis for $5.6B, Biogen is cutting most of its pipeline work
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Biogen has paused or canceled investment in the “majority” of research programs that came with its $5.6 billion acquisition of Apellis Pharmaceuticals and laid off “a small number” of employees from the biotech, a spokesperson ...
Source: Endpoints News