August 9, 2018 09:40 AM EDT
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Lig­and ac­quires Ver­nalis at bar­gain price of $43M; Pfiz­er, No­vo back $60M round for dwarfism biotech

John Carroll

Editor & Founder

→ Five months af­ter a be­lea­guered Ver­nalis (LSE: $VER) de­cid­ed to sell it­self in the af­ter­math of back-to-back FDA re­jec­tions, the biotech has found a …

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