Au­rinia bounces back, shares soar on pos­i­tive da­ta for lu­pus drug

Last sum­mer, Au­rinia $AUPH found it­self be­tween a rock and a hard place as it sought to ex­plain a trou­bling clus­ter of deaths in the two dos­ing co­horts — as well as an odd flip-flop in re­sults you might ex­pect to see from the low and high dos­es — used to test their drug vo­closporin for lu­pus nephri­tis. Un­sat­is­fied by the case Au­rinia made for ef­fi­ca­cy and safe­ty at 24 weeks, in­vestors pulled out af­ter look­ing over the fall­out, cra­ter­ing the stock.

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