A month af­ter los­ing its lead pro­gram, Uni­ty Biotech­nol­o­gy cuts 30% of staff in re­struc­tur­ing

Uni­ty Biotech­nol­o­gy’s lead an­ti-ag­ing pro­gram faced the chop­ping block last month fol­low­ing a ma­jor Phase II flop. And now, 30% of its staff are next, as the com­pa­ny re­struc­tures to fo­cus on oph­thal­mol­o­gy and neu­rol­o­gy.

The staff re­duc­tion will leave San Fran­cis­co-based Uni­ty $UBX with 75 full-time em­ploy­ees by the end of the year. It’s yet an­oth­er blow to the celebri­ty-fund­ed biotech, which has been laser-fo­cused on clear­ing senes­cent cells to po­ten­tial­ly re­duce the symp­toms of ag­ing.

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