Acor­da is shift­ing in­to sur­vival mode. And it’s go­ing to start by ax­ing more than 100 staffers.

PHO­TO: Co­hen at BIO 2016

One month af­ter a US dis­trict court tossed four key patents on its flag­ship drug Ampyra, leav­ing it with one to stand on in­to next year, Acor­da $ACOR is chop­ping 20% of its staff as it scram­bles to re­struc­ture while gam­bling that it can field new drugs in short or­der. Those cuts will fall dis­pro­por­tion­ate­ly on the com­pa­ny’s R&D staff, CEO Ron Co­hen tells me, as Acor­da cir­cles its wag­ons around its two late-stage drugs while con­serv­ing its mar­ket­ing mus­cle.

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