Paul Bolno (Wave via Twitter)

A crash­ing Wave takes out the bud­get ax to chop staff, aban­don­ing work on Duchenne MD in re­struc­tur­ing

Fac­ing back-to-back set­backs in the clin­ic, Cam­bridge, MA-based Wave Life Sci­ences $WVE has brought out the bud­get ax to chop away at its cost base.

The US/Sin­ga­pore hy­brid — led by CEO Paul Bol­no — filed word with the SEC of their plan to cut out 22% of its work­force, which a spokesper­son for the biotech tells me amounts to 65 staffers. The pink slips start­ed to make the rounds on Feb­ru­ary 6 and were ex­pect­ed to be com­plet­ed on Mon­day the 10th.

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