Af­ter bag­ging Shire’s cell ther­a­py castoff, Cal­adrius stock climbs

Af­ter Shire’s $32 bil­lion buy­out of Bax­al­ta back in 2016, the com­pa­ny has been purg­ing its un­want­ed as­sets to biotechs with bar­ren pipelines. Now, one of those pro­grams is land­ing in fa­mil­iar hands.

Cal­adrius Bio­sciences $CLBS, a bio­phar­ma that killed its lead drug two years ago, has snatched an ex­clu­sive li­cense to a late-stage cell ther­a­py pro­gram be­ing tossed by Shire. The pro­gram is a CD34+ cell ther­a­py for re­frac­to­ry angi­na, and it’s a treat­ment Cal­adrius’ CMO knows quite well.

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