Cor­re­vio is putting it­self up on the auc­tion block af­ter FDA re­view pan­el points to an­oth­er re­jec­tion

For 13 years, the Cana­di­an biotech Cor­re­vio tried to get the FDA to ac­cept a heart drug since aban­doned by Mer­ck and Astel­las. Yes­ter­day, the agency’s out­side ex­perts vot­ed 11-2 against ap­proval, all but as­sur­ing an­oth­er re­jec­tion for the atri­al fib­ril­la­tion com­pound ver­nakalant.

And to­day Cor­re­vio an­nounced that Cor­re­vio may soon be no more. The com­pa­ny said it is look­ing to sell it­self as its stock plum­mets in­to pen­ny-stock ter­ri­to­ry $CORV and its po­ten­tial mon­ey­mak­er sput­ters once more.

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